{"id":24851,"date":"2011-12-13T11:58:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T17:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24851"},"modified":"2011-12-13T07:18:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T13:18:53","slug":"results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24851","title":{"rendered":"Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some local leftybloggers &#8211; and national liberal pundits, for that matter &#8211; are tittering that &#8220;the Tea Party is dead!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But if\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1211\/70318.html\">this Gallup poll is accurate, the Tea Party is now the mainstream<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Americans\u2019 fear of big government &#8211; partly fueled by a sharp spike among Democrats since President Barack Obama took office &#8211; almost reached a record high this year and is far greater than people\u2019s concerns about big business and big labor, a new Gallup poll Monday shows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a Tea Partier, and you&#8217;re wondering all that sound and fury signified anything, you can look at this bit here (emphasis added)&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An overwhelming <strong>64 percent of people<\/strong> surveyed said big <strong>government was the biggest threat to the country<\/strong>, compared to just 26 percent who said big business is their gravest concern and 8 percent who picked big labor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and think &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Not that the job is done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some local leftybloggers &#8211; and national liberal pundits, for that matter &#8211; are tittering that &#8220;the Tea Party is dead!&#8221;. But if\u00a0this Gallup poll is accurate, the Tea Party is now the mainstream: Americans\u2019 fear of big government &#8211; partly fueled by a sharp spike among Democrats since President Barack Obama took office &#8211; almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24872,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851\/revisions\/24872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}