{"id":1088,"date":"2008-09-12T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2008-09-12T05:00:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T10:00:59","slug":"more-good-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1088","title":{"rendered":"More Good Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollster.com\/blogs\/coleman_maverick_or_mcsame.php\" target=\"_blank\">analysis<\/a> by John Coleman, Chair of the Department Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shows that John McCain does, in fact, deserve the maverick mantle.<br \/>\nAccording to Professor Coleman, McCain bucked the Republican party line more consistently than either Obama or Biden differed from the Democrats.  It&#8217;s a complex analysis and worth reading.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nMeanwhile, Obama has proven that many Democrats were right: his campaign was far more competent than the candidate.  The incredible blunder of not nominating Hillary Clinton for either the top or #2 stop is going to haunt the Democrats for years to come.<br \/>\nRegardless of who is elected in November, the next four to eight years are going to be a nasty, partisan ride.<br \/>\nAnd <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.foxnews.com\/2008\/09\/10\/report-mccain-a-hero-to-taxpayers\/\" target=\"_blank\">check this out<\/a>:<br \/>\n<i>In its new report, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste gave the Republican presidential nominee a 100 percent rating for his votes in the Senate last year, and a lifetime score of 88 percent.<br \/>\nBy comparison, the nonpartisan, nonprofit group, which is the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste, gave the Democratic presidential nominee a 10 percent score last year and a lifetime score of 18 percent. Biden, Obama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis by John Coleman, Chair of the Department Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shows that John McCain does, in fact, deserve the maverick mantle. According to Professor Coleman, McCain bucked the Republican party line more consistently than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1088\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}