{"id":2807,"date":"2010-05-01T21:57:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T21:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2023-04-18T22:41:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T22:41:15","slug":"eurovision-2010-podcast-all-about-political-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/05\/eurovision-2010-podcast-all-about-political-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2010 Podcast: All About Political Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All About Political Voting (MP3 8.6MB 9 minutes 16 seconds)   <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/UnofficialEurovisionSongContestPodcast4\/exs_esc_20100501_04.mp3\">DOWNLOAD the podcast by right clicking on this link<\/a>, or press play and listen in your browser.<\/p>\n<p>[powerpress]<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the songs and the showmanship that people love about Eurovision, it\u2019s how the history of Europe directly affects voting patterns in the contest. And as the traditional satellite links up around Europe show, there\u2019s anticipation, excitement and even some obvious favouritism between countries that happens every year.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the political voting at Eurovision is as much party of the fabric as, well, the sequins, spandex and glittery fabrics worn by the performers.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s a lot of complex issues behind the two words of political voting, and it\u2019s this area that is explored in the latest Short Guide to Eurovision on the unofficial podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you never miss an episode of the Unofficial Eurovision Podcast either by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escinsight.com\/category\/podcast\/feed\/\">subscribing to the RSS feed<\/a> or having <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/the-unofficial-eurovision\/id369754923\">this link open up iTunes<\/a> so you can follow the show automatically.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image132.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thorniest subject of them all &#8211; political voting. Is The Eurovision Song Contest really rigged by immigration, partnerships and alliances between countries? Doesn&#8217;t the song matter? Ewan Spence investigates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1574,22,392,1715,1700],"tags":[1739,1738,1736,287,449,1737],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-conferences","category-conferences","category-eurovision-multimedia","category-podcast-eurovision-multimedia-multimedia","category-eurovision-2010","tag-cheating","tag-diasporas","tag-douze-points","tag-eurovision","tag-fix","tag-political-voting","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-Jh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65585,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/65585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}