{"id":844,"date":"2008-05-20T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T20:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=844"},"modified":"2008-05-20T16:33:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T20:33:02","slug":"of-labels-and-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/20\/of-labels-and-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Labels and Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by many things &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vivianpaige.com\/2008\/05\/19\/opinion-please-can-the-tent-become-too-big\/\">Vivian&#8217;s question<\/a> about the size of the Democratic Party tent, and commenter James&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/02\/the-failure-of-conservatism\/#comment-47522\">objection to my post about the failure of conservatism<\/a> included &#8211; I&#8217;ve been thinking about the intersection of party, ideology, and actual results lately.  In the midst of that, I checked out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicwhip.org.uk\/election_crewe_and_nantwich_2008.php\">this nifty tool<\/a>.  Put out by The Public Whip, a UK non-profit dedicated to improving the civic process, it tries to help citizens understand whether the party that they&#8217;re voting for agrees with them on the issues.  While I wasn&#8217;t really surprised by the result &#8211; I didn&#8217;t line up with the part that I&#8217;ve historically identified with (and still do) &#8211; I was certainly surprised by the distance separating me and that party these days.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by many things &#8211; Vivian&#8217;s question about the size of the Democratic Party tent, and commenter James&#8217; objection to my post about the failure of conservatism included &#8211; I&#8217;ve been thinking about the intersection of party, ideology, and actual results lately. In the midst of that, I checked out this nifty tool. 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