{"id":32191,"date":"2018-09-08T02:42:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T02:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32191"},"modified":"2018-09-08T02:42:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T02:42:59","slug":"this-election-really-might-be-one-for-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32191","title":{"rendered":"This election really might be one for the ages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/voting_election513180508_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31471\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/voting_election513180508_3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/voting_election513180508_3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/voting_election513180508_3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems that every two years politicians declare the upcoming election &#8212; whether for president or for Congress &#8212; to be the &#8220;most important election in our lifetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama joined that chorus today. Others have said that the 2018 midterm election is the most consequential election in memory.<\/p>\n<p>The more I think about it, they might be right. This midterm election might be the most important such event we&#8217;ve seen in some time.<\/p>\n<p>Think of the stakes. A president seems to careening out of control. Congress stands as a possible deterrent to the president&#8217;s most dangerous impulses. The House of Representatives well might shift from Republican to Democratic control.<\/p>\n<p>What happens if the House flips from GOP to Democratic? Hearings. Lots of hearings. That &#8220;Russia thing&#8221; will take an even more prominent place on center stage.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; yes. This election seems like a real big deal.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the biggest ever?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that every two years politicians declare the upcoming election &#8212; whether for president or for Congress &#8212; to be the &#8220;most important election in our lifetime.&#8221; Barack Obama joined that chorus today. Others have said that the 2018 midterm election is the most consequential election in memory. The more I think about it, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This election really might be one for the ages<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[14],"tags":[540,1112,7995,1424,1941,7576],"class_list":["post-32191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-democrat","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-midterm-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191","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=32191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32192,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191\/revisions\/32192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}