{"id":1264,"date":"2008-10-02T13:48:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T20:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2008-10-02T13:49:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T20:49:21","slug":"seniority-bailout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/seniority-bailout\/","title":{"rendered":"Seniority Bailout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As originally suggested by Nordsieck, I have compiled a couple of graphs depicting the relationship between voting on the bailout plan and the seniority (time since first elected) of the voter. Check it out below, and feel free to draw your own conclusions. My conclusion? DC corrupts.<\/p>\n<p>For more damning evidence, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maplight.org\/node\/43109\">the relationship between campaign donations and voting<\/a> in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/images\/2008\/10\/senate-bailout-seniority.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"462\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1266\" title=\"Senate Bailout Seniority\" src=\"\/media\/images\/2008\/10\/senate-bailout-seniority.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/images\/2008\/10\/hor-bailout-seniority1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"506\" height=\"397\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1267\" title=\"House of Representitives Bailout Seniority\" src=\"\/media\/images\/2008\/10\/hor-bailout-seniority1.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As originally suggested by Nordsieck, I have compiled a couple of graphs depicting the relationship between voting on the bailout plan and the seniority (time since first elected) of the voter. Check it out below, and feel free to draw your own conclusions. My conclusion? DC corrupts. For more damning evidence, check out the relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}