{"id":5861,"date":"2010-01-20T10:04:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T08:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2010-01-20T10:04:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T08:04:29","slug":"ted-kennedy%e2%80%99s-seat-lost-to-wall-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/20\/ted-kennedy%e2%80%99s-seat-lost-to-wall-st\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Kennedy&rsquo;s seat lost to Wall St.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/debtonation.org\/2010\/01\/ted-kennedys-seat-lost-to-wall-st\/\">Debtonation  \u00ac\u00aa Blog Archive   \u00ac\u00aa Ted Kennedy&rsquo;s seat lost to Wall St.?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From Ann Pettifor's blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am hearing from informed sources in the US that the Democrat candidate in Ted Kennedy&rsquo;s seat is already <a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/01\/19\/coakley-pollster-defends_n_428600.html\" target=\"_self\">blaming President Obama.<\/a> for the loss of the ultra-safe Democratic seats.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We were hurt by White House Failure to confront Wall St.&rdquo; says the candidate&rsquo;s pollster.<\/p>\n<p>Celinda Lake pointed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/10\/28\/public-sees-a-tilted-play_n_337424.html\" target=\"_hplink\">polling released by the Economic Policy Institute<\/a> showing that 65 percent of Americans though the stimulus served banks interests, 56 percent thought it served corporations and only ten percent that it benefited them.<\/p>\n<p>Is there still time for Labour to learn from the spectacular misjudgement of a President considered the most sophisticated of politicians?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You just have to hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debtonation \u00ac\u00aa Blog Archive \u00ac\u00aa Ted Kennedy&rsquo;s seat lost to Wall St.?. From Ann Pettifor&#8217;s blog: I am hearing from informed sources in the US<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/20\/ted-kennedy%e2%80%99s-seat-lost-to-wall-st\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}