{"id":467,"date":"2005-09-20T21:23:45","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T01:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=467"},"modified":"2005-09-20T21:24:01","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T01:24:01","slug":"indecision-goes-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Indecision goes global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, waht the hell is up with voters these days?   In 2000, the US couldn&#8217;t figure what the hell it wanted.  Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2005-09-19-germany-election_x.htm\">in 2005, it&#8217;s Germany<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BERLIN \u2014 &#8220;Chancellor War!&#8221; screamed the headline in Bild, Germany&#8217;s largest tabloid newspaper, on Monday. &#8220;Who will govern Germany now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer is still days, if not weeks, away. Incumbent Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his opponent, Angela Merkel, both claimed victory in Sunday&#8217;s parliamentary elections. Their competing claims put Germany in a political deadlock and could stall efforts to revive the torpid economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An unstable government and a perpetual election campaign with an uncertain outcome is the last thing our country needs,&#8221; said Hermann Franzen, the head of HDE, a retail trade association.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel&#8217;s party, the Christian Democratic Union, won 35.2% of the vote in Sunday&#8217;s elections, compared with 34.3% for Schroeder&#8217;s Social Democratic Party. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Each of the candidates in question could barely muster a third of the vote?  That&#8217;s pathetic!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany can&#8217;t decide who their new chancellor is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}