{"id":175,"date":"2006-11-09T05:11:07","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2007-02-27T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T03:09:12","slug":"against-the-war-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Against the War in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/?p=170\">previous post<\/a>, I proposed that the <em>Financial Times<\/em> might provide interesting coverage of the election:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[V]otes can be cast\u00e2\u20ac\u201cand correctly interpreted\u00e2\u20ac\u201cas \u00e2\u20ac\u0153productive misunderstandings.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The Democrats are not an anti-war party, but they may benefit from popular anti-war sentiment anyway. If so, much will depend on the media coverage of the elections. Will the election be interpreted as a vote against the war, even if the party that benefits is not against the war?<\/p>\n<p>One reason why I often turn to the <em>Financial Times<\/em> for election analysis around the world is that they understand that <strong>some elections are <em>lost<\/em> by incumbents, even if they are not really <em>won<\/em> by challengers<\/strong>.  It will be <strong>interesting to check in with the FT Wednesday<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is Ed Luce from the <em>Financial Times<\/em> on Wednesday, in an article entitled &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/58c5691c-6f51-11db-ab7b-0000779e2340.html\">Iraq War Decimates Republican Vote<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whether they were representing districts in America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s traditionally liberal north-east, in the more embattled swing states of the Midwest, along the ideologically pragmatic states of the west or even in conservative districts south of the Mason-Dixon line, Republican incumbents were punished for their association with President George W. Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unpopular war in Iraq&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>The principal story of the 2006 mid-term elections is that voters were driven by their opposition to the war in Iraq<\/strong>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Charlie Cook, whose <strong>Cook political report<\/strong> is widely read among pundits in Washington. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>This was not a vote for the Democrats so much as against President Bush and against the war in Iraq<\/strong>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Financial Times<\/em>, old faithful.<\/p>\n<blockquote \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post, I proposed that the Financial Times might provide interesting coverage of the election: [V]otes can be cast\u00e2\u20ac\u201cand correctly interpreted\u00e2\u20ac\u201cas \u00e2\u20ac\u0153productive misunderstandings.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The Democrats are not an anti-war party, but they may benefit from popular anti-war sentiment anyway. If so, much will depend on the media coverage of the elections. Will the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}