{"id":32718,"date":"2012-11-06T07:33:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32718"},"modified":"2012-11-06T07:33:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T11:33:10","slug":"recent-era-veterans-surge-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32718","title":{"rendered":"Recent-era veterans surge in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/veterans-of-recent-wars-running-for-office-in-record-numbers-1.196046\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>&#8216; Joyce Tsai, after decades of declining numbers of veterans in Congress, recent era veterans are set to surge there this election season;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Currently 92 members of the House are veterans, Lynn said. Of the 189 veterans who have received their party\u2019s Congressional nomination this year, between 92 to 100 are expected to win, unless there\u2019s a surprise sweep of the House by Democrats in Republican-leaning districts, according to the analysis.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Only 10 members of Congress currently serving were deployed to the Middle East and Asia in support of the recent wars. All but one of them are Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>For this election cycle, 38 House candidates and four Senate candidates with warzone experience are vying for office, by far the most representation that the Iraq\/Afghanistan generation of veterans has seen in national elections since the start of the wars. Thirteen of the 42 hopefuls are Democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This can only be good for the country, irrespective of the party they come from. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Stars &#038; Stripes&#8216; Joyce Tsai, after decades of declining numbers of veterans in Congress, &hellip; <a title=\"Recent-era veterans surge in Congress\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32718\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recent-era veterans surge in Congress<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}