{"id":11394,"date":"2023-08-07T17:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T17:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11394"},"modified":"2023-08-07T17:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T17:23:46","slug":"this-is-a-really-big-deal-how-college-towns-are-decimating-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11394","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is a Really Big Deal\u2019: How College Towns Are Decimating the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;In state after state, fast-growing, traditionally liberal college counties like Dane are flexing their muscles, generating higher turnout and ever greater Democratic margins. They\u2019ve already played a pivotal role in turning several red states blue \u2014 and they could play an equally decisive role in key swing states next year.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/07\/21\/gop-college-towns-00106974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/07\/21\/gop-college-towns-00106974<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In state after state, fast-growing, traditionally liberal college counties like Dane are flexing their muscles, generating higher turnout and ever greater Democratic margins. They\u2019ve already played a pivotal role in turning several red states blue \u2014 and they could play an equally<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11394\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[94,198,129,1268,968,506,386],"class_list":["post-11394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-colleges","tag-elections","tag-gop","tag-political-parties","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans","tag-voters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11395,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions\/11395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}