{"id":7730,"date":"2010-01-07T08:31:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T13:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2010-01-07T08:32:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T13:32:32","slug":"hope-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7730","title":{"rendered":"Hope For Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/124958\/Conservatives-Finish-2009-No-1-Ideological-Group.aspx\">are now #1:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The increased conservatism that Gallup first identified among Americans last June persisted throughout the year, so that the final year-end political ideology figures confirm Gallup&#8217;s initial reporting: conservatives 40% outnumbered both moderates 36% and liberals 21% across the nation in 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not just a little bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since 1992, there have been only two other years &#8212; 2003 and 2004 &#8212; in which the average percentage of conservatives nationwide outnumbered moderates, and in both cases, it was by two percentage points (in contrast to the current four points).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Three more years of Obama bode well for that gap, I think.<\/p>\n<p>But the interesting question for me is &#8220;what does conservatism mean&#8221; these days.<\/p>\n<p>Expect a much longer piece on the subject later this week.\u00a0 I can say that, since I was working on it long before I saw this poll result&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives\u00a0 are now #1: The increased conservatism that Gallup first identified among Americans last June persisted throughout the year, so that the final year-end political ideology figures confirm Gallup&#8217;s initial reporting: conservatives 40% outnumbered both moderates 36% and liberals 21% across the nation in 2009. And it&#8217;s not just a little bit: Since 1992, there [&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-7730","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\/7730","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=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7732,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions\/7732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}