{"id":41803,"date":"2014-10-30T10:02:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41803"},"modified":"2014-10-30T10:02:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:02:40","slug":"how-next-weeks-elections-could-shape-the-american-political-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/10\/30\/how-next-weeks-elections-could-shape-the-american-political-future\/","title":{"rendered":"How Next Week&#8217;s Elections Could Shape the American Political Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141030Uprising\/2014_10_30_nichols.mp3\">Listen to this segment with John Nichols <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141030Uprising\/2014_10_30_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/us_senate.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Midterm elections take place next Tuesday November 4th around the nation, from local races and measures, to state-wide propositions and governor&#8217;s races, and of course Congressional races in both the Senate and the House. <\/p>\n<p>Currently Republicans control the House with Democrats having a slim Senate majority. That could very well change next week with Republicans being projected to win at least 50 seats in the Senate and Democrats a decisive 47. Three races throw a wrench into the works. <\/p>\n<p>In both Louisiana and Georgia, the presence of third party candidates could force a run-off between the top two vote getters, postponing final results until December and January. And in Kansas, an independent whose allegiance to Democrats is still questionable, could win. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans are likely to retain control of the House, albeit with a smaller majority. The GOP also looks set to win more gubernatorial elections than Democrats. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: John Nichols, the Washington DC correspondent for the Nation Magazine, a contributing writer for the Progressive and In These Times, and associate editor of the Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin. He has written many books, the latest of which is co-written with Bob McChesney called Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Campaign is Destroying America. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midterm elections take place next Tuesday November 4th around the nation, from local races and measures, to state-wide propositions and governor&#8217;s races, and of course Congressional races in both the Senate and the House. Currently Republicans control the House with Democrats having a slim Senate majority. That could very well change next week with Republicans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41809,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41803\/revisions\/41809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}