{"id":36820,"date":"2013-06-19T05:54:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T10:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36820"},"modified":"2013-06-17T20:01:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T01:01:27","slug":"where-have-you-gone-sandra-fluke-the-nation-turns-its-lonely-eyes-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36820","title":{"rendered":"Where Have You Gone, Sandra Fluke?   The Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes To  You."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s Prime Minster, Julia Gillard, flogs the &#8220;Gender War&#8221; card&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20130617-gender-war-backfires-men-ditch-australia-pm\">with the kind of results the American electorate would do well to heed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the ploy has backfired with a poll in Fairfax Media showing male voters are abandoning Gillard and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and there is little sign of more women getting behind her.<\/p>\n<p>The telephone poll of 1,400 voters found that since the last survey a month ago Labor&#8217;s standing has continued to slide, led entirely by a seven percent exodus of men.<\/p>\n<p>Under a two-party vote, the conservative opposition would romp home in the September 14 elections with 57 percent (up three points) to 43 percent (down three points) for Labor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two possible conclusions:\u00a0 either 1) there are limits to &#8220;war on women&#8221; rhetoric, or b) Australian voters are just plain smarter than ours are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s Prime Minster, Julia Gillard, flogs the &#8220;Gender War&#8221; card&#8230; &#8230;with the kind of results the American electorate would do well to heed: But the ploy has backfired with a poll in Fairfax Media showing male voters are abandoning Gillard and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and there is little sign of more women getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-men-and-women","category-pc","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36822,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820\/revisions\/36822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}