{"id":4381,"date":"2021-02-01T12:41:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2021-02-01T12:41:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:41:49","slug":"the-political-right-needs-to-change-course-on-elections-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-political-right-needs-to-change-course-on-elections-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"The political right needs to change course on elections reform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"965\" height=\"713\" data-attachment-id=\"4382\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-political-right-needs-to-change-course-on-elections-reform\/wikipedia-1900_new_york_polling_place\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Wikipedia-1900_New_York_polling_place.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"965,713\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Wikipedia-1900_New_York_polling_place\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Wikipedia-1900_New_York_polling_place-300x222.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Wikipedia-1900_New_York_polling_place.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Wikipedia-1900_New_York_polling_place.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Wikipedia-1900_New_York_polling_place.jpg 965w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Wikipedia-1900_New_York_polling_place-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Wikipedia-1900_New_York_polling_place-768x567.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><figcaption>A New York polling place, c1900.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was the 2020 election a wipeout for the Republican Party? At first blush, yes. The party lost control of the presidency and the Senate \u2014 two years after losing the House of Representatives. Things have not been this bad since Herbert Hoover\u2019s presidency. He too was a one-term president whose party lost control over the first and second branches with breathtaking speed. But that\u2019s not the whole story&#8230;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/politics-and-public-opinion\/the-political-right-needs-to-change-course-on-elections-reform\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was the 2020 election a wipeout for the Republican Party? At first blush, yes. The party lost control of the presidency and the Senate \u2014 two years after losing the House of Representatives. Things have not been this bad since Herbert Hoover\u2019s presidency. He too was a one-term president whose party lost control over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[225],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-4381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-reform","tag-aei-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-18F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4383,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions\/4383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}