{"id":7204,"date":"2010-11-03T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=7204"},"modified":"2011-01-04T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T17:30:57","slug":"big-picture-view-on-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/11\/03\/big-picture-view-on-midterm-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Big picture view on midterm elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political science department chair <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson <\/a>offers his view on the midterm elections and what&#8217;s next for President Obama. Professor Wilson is the author of &#8220;<a title=\"Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cqpress.com\/product\/Only-in-America-The-Politics.html\" target=\"_blank\">Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A stunning blow for the Democrats. The question now is whether Obama can play the game of wrong footing for the Republican House as adroitly as did Bill Clinton in the &#8217;90s.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\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>Political science department chair Graham Wilson offers his view on the midterm elections and what&#8217;s next for President Obama. Professor Wilson is the author of &#8220;Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective.&#8221; &#8220;A stunning blow for the Democrats. The question now is whether Obama can play the game of wrong footing for the Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[589,2845,2908,1759,2958],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204"}],"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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7204"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7473,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204\/revisions\/7473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}