{"id":1888,"date":"2008-01-06T12:52:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T19:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2008-01-06T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T19:42:10","slug":"scratch-bloombergs-surface-find-a-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1888","title":{"rendered":"Scratch Bloomberg&#8217;s Surface, Find A Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/06\/nyregion\/06bloomberg.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">Nicholas Confessore writes a news article for the New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hundreds of miles from the hustings of New Hampshire lurks a possible presidential candidate who supports gay marriage, abortion rights and stricter regulation of handguns. Who doesn&rsquo;t mind taxing the rich on their income or big companies on their carbon emissions. Who says that deporting illegal immigrants would destroy the nation&rsquo;s economy. And who is not necessarily averse to adding more bureaucrats to the government payroll.<\/p>\n<p>That politician &mdash; <a title=\"More articles about Michael R. Bloomberg.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/b\/michael_r_bloomberg\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Michael R. Bloomberg<\/a>, the billionaire mayor of New York &mdash; has spent months laying out his vision for a post-partisan approach to politics that would take the best from left and right.<\/p>\n<p>Yet a close reading of the policies Mr. Bloomberg has promoted during his mayoralty suggests that Mr. Bloomberg actually has a lot in common with one party&rsquo;s leading candidates &mdash; the Democrats &mdash; and not so much with the other&rsquo;s. Indeed, on issues like gay marriage and gun control, Mr. Bloomberg stands well to the left of top-tier Democratic candidates like <a title=\"More articles about Hillary Rodham Clinton.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/c\/hillary_rodham_clinton\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Hillary Rodham Clinton<\/a>, <a title=\"More articles about John Edwards.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/e\/john_edwards\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">John Edwards<\/a> and <a title=\"More articles about Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/o\/barack_obama\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Confessore writes a news article for the New York Times: Hundreds of miles from the hustings of New Hampshire lurks a possible presidential candidate who supports gay marriage, abortion rights and stricter regulation of handguns. Who doesn&rsquo;t mind taxing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1888\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}