{"id":2238,"date":"2015-05-19T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T18:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2015-05-19T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T18:22:49","slug":"the-gop-is-dying-off-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2238","title":{"rendered":"The GOP Is Dying Off. Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Since the average Republican is significantly older than the average Democrat, far more Republicans than Democrats have died since the 2012 elections. To make matters worse, the GOP is attracting fewer first-time voters. Unless the party is able to make inroads with new voters, or discover a fountain of youth, the GOP\u2019s slow demographic slide will continue election to election. Actuarial tables make that part clear, but just how much of a problem for the GOP is this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2015\/05\/the-gop-is-dying-off-literally-118035.html#.VVt-ra7NuVB\">The GOP Is Dying Off. Literally. &#8211; Daniel J. McGraw &#8211; POLITICO Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the average Republican is significantly older than the average Democrat, far more Republicans than Democrats have died since the 2012 elections. To make matters worse, the GOP is attracting fewer first-time voters. Unless the party is able to make &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2238\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}