{"id":14659,"date":"2015-05-09T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T00:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14659"},"modified":"2015-05-09T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T00:31:10","slug":"analyzing-the-surprise-british-election-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/05\/09\/analyzing-the-surprise-british-election-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"analyzing the surprise British election returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Cameron wins another term in office.\u00c2\u00a0 Confirming the postulation of a “Shy Tory Syndrome”, the idea that the vote for the political party and candidacy is under-reported in the polls, from 1992’s election of the dorky culturally out of touch John Major <\/a>from the party that had just thrown out the now unpopular Margaret Thatcher as the Party of Greed and self interest — people were embarrassed to admit they’d vote to put John<\/p>\n

This year you would think this would have been off-set by a “Shy Labor Party” — with people embarrassed to admit that they would vote to put the very much mocked Ed Milibrand<\/a> in power — who was “defeated by a bacon sandwich” and was mocked as Wallace of Wallace and Gromit.\u00c2\u00a0 But no… The Torys were shier than the Shy Laborites.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone’s embarrassed by their candidates — but one side was more willing to admit to swallowing their spit and say they were voting for theirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Cameron wins another term in office.\u00c2\u00a0 Confirming the postulation of a “Shy Tory Syndrome”, the idea that the vote for the political party and candidacy is under-reported in the polls, from 1992’s election of the dorky culturally out of touch John Major from the party that had just thrown out the now unpopular Margaret […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14660,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions\/14660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}