{"id":800,"date":"2008-10-06T22:24:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T02:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2017-08-18T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:33:01","slug":"question-of-the-week-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/800","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With just a month left until the election, polls indicate that Barack Obama has a healthy lead in both the <a href=http:\/\/www.openleft.com\/showDiary.do;jsessionid=7E6EAC4B95FB68FA5D9060086FD015D8?diaryId=8833 target=_blank>popular vote<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/evp2008\/Pres\/Maps\/Oct05.html target=_blank>electoral college<\/a> projections, and the Democrats in Congress are looking strong as well.  <\/p>\n<p>After 2004&#8217;s disappointment, I don&#8217;t want to put too much faith in the polls, but I am feeling cautiously optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>But this week&#8217;s question isn&#8217;t about predicting the election.  Let&#8217;s suppose hypothetically that Barack Obama does win next month.  Let&#8217;s say that the election maintains a Democratic majority in the House, and Democrats wind up with <a href=http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1008\/14280.html target=_blank>60 seats<\/a> in the Senate (enough to block a filibuster).  <\/p>\n<p>This would basically put the Democrats in control of the agenda for at least two years, longer if the voters are pleased with the results.<\/p>\n<p>So, the two questions I pose to my mostly liberal readership (but also my few conservative and moderate readers as well) is this:<\/p>\n<p><em>If the Democrats were to take control, what would you like to see happen?  What would you expect would actually happen?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just a month left until the election, polls indicate that Barack Obama has a healthy lead in both the popular vote and electoral college projections, and the Democrats in Congress are looking strong as well. After 2004&#8217;s disappointment, I don&#8217;t want to put too much faith in the polls, but I am feeling cautiously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,45,9,15,114,24,20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps","category-math","category-politics","category-predictions","category-president-obama","category-question","category-social-justice","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}