{"id":253,"date":"2008-01-16T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.142:8080\/2008\/01\/16\/political-problems\/"},"modified":"2023-01-05T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T19:03:51","slug":"political-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/political-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">Voting is the most sacred and truly democratic system that our country has, and yet, the Democratic Party is going to punish Michigan [voters] for moving their primary to an earlier date.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Now, I&#8217;m not up on any of the rules that political parties have to follow, but it just seems totally wrong to discredit any individual&#8217;s vote because of something that a governmental body did.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The other thing I didn&#8217;t understand was why Michigan moved it&#8217;s primary in the first place?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Does getting more media attention really help us solve any of our problems?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>As I type this, I&#8217;m reminded of George Washington&#8217;s farewell speech, in which he warns America of partisan politics.<\/font><\/p>\n<div class='lj-moods-meta'><b>Current Mood:<\/b> \ud83d\ude41morose<br\/><b>Current Location:<\/b> <a href='https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/search?query=Hillsdale%2C%20MI'>Hillsdale, MI<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting is the most sacred and truly democratic system that our country has, and yet, the Democratic Party is going to punish Michigan [voters] for moving their primary to an earlier date.&nbsp; Now, I&#8217;m not up on any of the rules that political parties have to follow, but it just seems totally wrong to discredit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-opinions","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}