{"id":156,"date":"2011-09-29T08:36:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T14:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2011-09-29T08:36:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T14:36:04","slug":"example-of-why-never-forgetting-your-base-is-critical-democrats%e2%80%99-long-reign-in-washington-state-could-be-imperiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Example of why never forgetting your base is critical:  Democrats\u2019 long reign In Washington state could be imperiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kplu.org\/post\/democrats%E2%80%99-long-reign-washington-could-be-imperiled\">http:\/\/www.kplu.org\/post\/democrats%E2%80%99-long-reign-washington-could-be-imperiled<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a maxim in matters of the heart that also applies to politics: dance with the one that brung ya. Country singer Shania Twain even has a song about it: \u201cYou gotta dance with the one that brought you. And stay with the one that wants you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polls show voters think Washington is headed in the wrong direction. Majority Democrats are at odds with some of their key constituencies. And Republicans have found &#8211; in Attorney General Rob McKenna \u2013 a highly competitive gubernatorial candidate for 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.kplu.org\/post\/democrats%E2%80%99-long-reign-washington-could-be-imperiled There\u2019s a maxim in matters of the heart that also applies to politics: dance with the one that brung ya. Country singer Shania Twain even has a song about it: \u201cYou gotta dance with the one that brought you. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=156\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news-blackstone-valley","category-political-news-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}