{"id":58998,"date":"2016-06-02T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58998"},"modified":"2016-06-01T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T18:30:39","slug":"it-should-surprise-nobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58998","title":{"rendered":"It Should Surprise Nobody&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/commentary\/best-run-states-are-heavily-republican-study-finds\/\">the most fiscally sound and best managed\u00a0states in the union are controlled by Republicans<\/a>, while all of the worst marriage states are controlled by Democrats.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;while]\u00a0Mercatus makes no mention of the states\u2019 political leanings, every state in the top 10 except for Florida is solidly red, meaning those states voted for the Republican in each of the past four presidential elections (see table). And Florida has had a Republican governor since 1999, and the state House and Senate are both controlled by Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the spectrum, except for Kentucky, the 10 worst states are all solidly blue. And all but two of the governors since 1947 have been Democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.625;\">I said it <\/span><i style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 1.625;\">should<\/i><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.625;\"> surprise nobody. But you know it will.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 that the most fiscally sound and best managed\u00a0states in the union are controlled by Republicans, while all of the worst marriage states are controlled by Democrats. [&#8230;while]\u00a0Mercatus makes no mention of the states\u2019 political leanings, every state in the top 10 except for Florida is solidly red, meaning those states voted for the Republican [&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-58998","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\/58998","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=58998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59001,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58998\/revisions\/59001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}