{"id":554,"date":"2026-07-30T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundrysites.com\/?page_id=554"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:06:16","slug":"politics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sundrysites.com\/index.php\/politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the U.S. there&#8217;s (as of summer 2026) a lot of anger and distrust of the government.  I thought it might be useful to go back and see which political party has been in power since the start of the 21st century.  Below are the resulting pictures, first for the federal government and then my home state, Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you can readily see, if you are unhappy with the government now at least you should know which party to hold responsible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/sundrysites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/federal-control-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of federal control.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-427c6d68-322f-46bf-966c-ea9deaf7eabb\" href=\"https:\/\/sundrysites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/federal-control-1.pdf\">federal control<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sundrysites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/federal-control-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-427c6d68-322f-46bf-966c-ea9deaf7eabb\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/sundrysites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ohio-control.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of ohio control.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-371b71c8-fbb7-4a1f-ac76-a24bf5d4c972\" href=\"https:\/\/sundrysites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ohio-control.pdf\">ohio control<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sundrysites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ohio-control.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-371b71c8-fbb7-4a1f-ac76-a24bf5d4c972\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the U.S. there&#8217;s (as of summer 2026) a lot of anger and distrust of the government. I thought it might be useful to go back and see which political party has been in power since the start of the 21st century. Below are the resulting pictures, first for the federal government and then my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sundrysites.com\/index.php\/politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Politics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-554","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Politics - Sundrysites<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sundrysites.com\/index.php\/politics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Politics - Sundrysites\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the U.S. there&#8217;s (as of summer 2026) a lot of anger and distrust of the government. 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