{"id":14017,"date":"2016-04-10T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14017"},"modified":"2016-04-10T18:38:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T18:38:18","slug":"paradise-awaits-political-panderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14017","title":{"rendered":"Paradise awaits political panderers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New York is a paradise for those who love to pander for votes.<\/p>\n

That’s especially true in New York City, the Big Apple.<\/p>\n

Think of it: The city of 8 million-plus residents has a large Jewish-American population; the Catholic Church is big there, as well; it has a large African-American bloc of residents and\u00a0a significant LGBT community; it is home to blue-collar and white-collar residents; progressives and conservatives live there; a lot of veterans call NYC home; immigrants from all over the world have settled there.<\/p>\n

Why, there’s a group to which to pander for any of the five candidates competing for their parties’ presidential nomination.<\/p>\n

The city has enough groups to go around several times among all five of them.<\/p>\n

The state’s all-important primary is coming up a week from this coming Tuesday.<\/p>\n

For Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, this is it. He’s got to win it to stay viable as a presidential hopeful. Donald J. Trump must win the Republican primary big, too. Bernie was born in Brooklyn; Trump was born in Queens. They’re home boys. They might have less need to pander than the others.<\/p>\n

Rest assured, though, they’re going to pander to the home-boy crowd, the folks who want to vote for one of their own.<\/p>\n

I can hear them now talking smack with crowds about how they know more about the city than their rivals. Yep, that’s pandering, too.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the others — even Hillary Clinton, who represented New York in the Senate for eight years — are going to try to out-pander each other in their quests for votes.<\/p>\n

It won’t be pretty.<\/p>\n

Then again, gut-fighter politics hardly ever is a thing of beauty.<\/p>\n

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New York is a paradise for those who love to pander for votes. That’s especially true in New York City, the Big Apple. Think of it: The city of 8 million-plus residents has a large Jewish-American population; the Catholic Church is big there, as well; it has a large African-American bloc of residents and\u00a0a significant … Continue reading Paradise awaits political panderers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[597,1424,2139,6126],"class_list":["post-14017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-new-york-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14020,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14017\/revisions\/14020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}