{"id":3614,"date":"2012-11-13T20:22:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T01:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2012-11-13T20:22:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T01:22:32","slug":"darn-city-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3614","title":{"rendered":"Darn City Folk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s Paul Ryan commenting<\/a> on that out-of-nowhere defeat he and Romey suffered last Tuesday:<\/p>\n

When we saw the turnout that was occurring in urban areas which were really fairly unprecedented, it did come as a bit of a shock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is Ryan conceding that the GOP base is limited to rural and exurban America? More specifically, white<\/em> rural and exurban America? I’m not arguing the point. It’s just a little surprising to hear a Republican still in office be so candid about the demographic realities of conservative politics. Next thing you know, Ryan will be blaming the Jewish and atheist vote for his loss.<\/p>\n

Second, any future attempts by Ryan to describe himself as a “numbers guy” must be met with snickers and guffaws. A quick glance at any number of reliable polling aggregators should have disabused Ryan of his near-certitude regarding a Republican victory. Let’s hope his inability or refusal to grasp simple math isn’t a hindrance when he returns to his day job of House Budget Committee Chairman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s Paul Ryan commenting on that out-of-nowhere defeat he and Romey suffered last Tuesday: When we saw the turnout that was occurring in urban areas which were really fairly unprecedented, it did come as a bit of a shock. Is Ryan conceding that the GOP base is limited to rural and exurban America? More specifically, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Wi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}