{"id":41850,"date":"2014-11-04T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41850"},"modified":"2014-11-04T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:57:09","slug":"election-day-special-what-can-we-expect-from-a-republican-dominated-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/11\/04\/election-day-special-what-can-we-expect-from-a-republican-dominated-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day Special: What Can We Expect From a Republican Dominated Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141104Uprising\/2014_11_04_dayen.mp3\">Listen to this segment with David Dayen <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141104Uprising\/2014_11_04_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\/republicans_senate.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Americans are casting votes today in mid-term elections, which traditionally have low turnout, but which could signify the direction of the nation&#8217;s future. Polls suggest Republicans are poised to take control of the Senate albeit with a smaller margin than the last election. The current balance of 55 to 45 in favor of Democrats may flip to 50 to 47, with 2 possible runoffs and one independent who may or may not caucus with Democrats. <\/p>\n<p>Although there are not that many polls conducted on House races, the few that have been done suggest the GOP could take as many as 5-15 seats over their current majority. <\/p>\n<p>What does such a scenario mean &#8211; not just for President Obama&#8217;s remaining term, but for legislation and Congressional decision making? <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: David Dayen, contributing writer at Salon and he now joins me in studio. Welcome to Uprising. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/11\/04\/americas_grave_turning_point_why_this_election_matters_more_than_you_think\/\">Click here<\/a> to read David Dayen&#8217;s latest article in Salon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are casting votes today in mid-term elections, which traditionally have low turnout, but which could signify the direction of the nation&#8217;s future. Polls suggest Republicans are poised to take control of the Senate albeit with a smaller margin than the last election. The current balance of 55 to 45 in favor of Democrats may [&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-41850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41850","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=41850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41860,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41850\/revisions\/41860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}