{"id":1929,"date":"2006-03-25T01:09:48","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T06:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/midterm_issues\/"},"modified":"2006-03-25T01:09:48","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T06:09:48","slug":"midterm_issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/03\/midterm_issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Term Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.jameswolcott.com\/\">James Wolcott<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More and more, I&#8217;m sensing that the 2006 midterms, for better or worse, will be a Lou Dobbs election. (No single forum was more instrumental for aborting the Dubai ports deal than his.) The midterms will be fought not over cultural-war values like gay marriage or abortion, but over the sorts of economic and sovereignty issues Dobbs hammers on about every weeknight on CNN: the squeeze on the middle class; Washington&#8217;s runaway budgets and the explosion in deficit; the gutting of pensions; the hollowing-out of America&#8217;s industrial base; the war over immigration; globalization and free trade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure yet about the trade part, but we could well see &#8220;middle class&#8221; issues come to the fore, especially if health care and energy costs continue to climb.  And immigration could heat up too, especially if we see gatherings Mexican-flag-waving demonstrators.  I have a feeling that won&#8217;t go over to well in the &#8220;heartland.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/03\/midterm_issues\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Mid-Term Issues\"><p>James Wolcott: More and more, I&#8217;m sensing that the 2006 midterms, for better or worse, will be a Lou Dobbs election. (No single forum was more instrumental for aborting the Dubai ports deal than his.) The midterms will be fought not over cultural-war values like gay marriage or abortion, but over the sorts of economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}