{"id":260,"date":"2009-06-08T15:20:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T19:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/06\/08\/obama-bucking-the-trend\/"},"modified":"2009-06-08T15:20:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T19:20:01","slug":"obama-bucking-the-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/06\/08\/obama-bucking-the-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Bucking the Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090608\/ap_on_re_eu\/eu_european_elections\">This raises the question<\/a> whether the U.S. is out of step with the rest of the Western world, where conservatives are on the rise.&#160; One interpretation is that whoever is in power during these economic times gets the boot from voters.&#160; But conservatives may not be winning as much as the fringe groups.&#160; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The vote also saw the all-white British National Party pick up two seats in the EU assembly \u2014 joining far-right parties from the Netherlands, Hungary and Austria that excoriated Muslims, immigrants and minorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders&#8217; anti-Islamic party took 17 percent of the country&#8217;s votes, winning four of 25 seats. <\/p>\n<p>Three of 22 seats in Hungary went to the far-right Jobbik party, which describes itself as Euro-skeptic and anti-immigration. Critics say the party is racist and anti-Semitic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This raises the question whether the U.S. is out of step with the rest of the Western world, where conservatives are on the rise.&#160; One interpretation is that whoever is in power during these economic times gets the boot from voters.&#160; But conservatives may not be winning as much as the fringe groups.&#160; The vote&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/06\/08\/obama-bucking-the-trend\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}