{"id":5386,"date":"2010-05-03T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5386"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:31:37","slug":"british-election-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/05\/03\/british-election-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"British election showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5388\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/British-PM-candidates-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"British PM candidates\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The month-long British elections are in the homestretch headed for Thursday&#8217;s vote after a furious weekend of <a title=\"campaigning\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/05\/02\/AR2010050202873.html?hpid=moreheadlines\" target=\"_blank\">campaigning<\/a> by Prime Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/gordon-brown\">Gordon Brown<\/a> (r.) of the Labour party, Conservative party leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/davidcameron\">David Cameron<\/a> (l.), and and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/nickclegg\">Nick Clegg<\/a> (center)\u00a0of the upstart Liberal Democrats.\u00a0Political science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, a native of Great Britain who is in England this week to observe the finale, says it&#8217;s still too close to call.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The momentum is with David Cameron and the Conservatives. But due to the bizarre workings of Britain\u2019s electoral system, their lead isn\u2019t enough yet to insure that they can win a majority and form a government. It\u2019s still a cliff hanger.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The month-long British elections are in the homestretch headed for Thursday&#8217;s vote after a furious weekend of campaigning by Prime Minister Gordon Brown (r.) of the Labour party, Conservative party leader David Cameron (l.), and and Nick Clegg (center)\u00a0of the upstart Liberal Democrats.\u00a0Political science Professor Graham Wilson, a native of Great Britain who is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2634,2729,2730,1102,2845,698,2728,2884,2726],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5386"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7763,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions\/7763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}