{"id":763,"date":"2005-09-19T22:45:06","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T01:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=763"},"modified":"2005-09-19T22:52:54","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T01:52:54","slug":"and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"And the winner is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>mazing<a href=\".\/wp-content\/derspiegel.jpg\"><img src='.\/wp-content\/thumb-derspiegel.jpg' alt='Der uh... Spiegel' class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a> how the two big German political parties have spun their election loss in a win.\n<\/p>\n<p>Does it count to say &#8216;Ha-ha we won because we lost seats but we are still a couple of seats ahead of you&#8217; or &#8216;Ha-ha we won because you weren&#8217;t able to get the majority&#8217;. The real winners are the small parties on the right (FDP) and the left (PDS).\n<\/p>\n<p>Forming a coalition with those voting results and a loss for both major political parties has an interesting consequence: either both major parties are going to form a coalition <em>together<\/em> or both of them are going to try to form a coalition with at least two smaller parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing how the two big German political parties have spun their election loss in a win. Does it count to say &#8216;Ha-ha we won because we lost seats but we are still a couple of seats ahead of you&#8217; or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=763\">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":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}