{"id":215,"date":"2012-05-17T11:53:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T11:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polsis.org\/?p=215"},"modified":"2012-05-17T11:53:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T11:53:21","slug":"the-roller-coaster-ride-to-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/2012\/05\/17\/the-roller-coaster-ride-to-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roller Coaster Ride to the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Earlier this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/drvmds.com\/\" title=\"Personal website\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto<\/a>, a Fellow at the Center for Politics and Governance at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/lbj\/\" target=\"_blank\">LBJ School of Public Affairs<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/\">University of Texas at Austin<\/a>, came to POLSIS to discuss some of the dynamics surrounding this year&#8217;s presidential election in the United States. Here is an excerpt of what she had to say.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8AGmz4FYHe0&amp;w=420&amp;h=315]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Dr Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, a Fellow at the Center for Politics and Governance at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, came to POLSIS to discuss some of the dynamics surrounding this year&#8217;s presidential election in the United States. Here is an excerpt of what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/2012\/05\/17\/the-roller-coaster-ride-to-the-white-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Roller Coaster Ride to the White House&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[39,89,115,154],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-video","category-past-events","tag-defrancesco","tag-lbj-school-of-public-affairs","tag-politics","tag-university-of-texas-at-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}