{"id":4165,"date":"2010-07-02T07:18:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T12:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2010-07-02T07:23:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T12:23:01","slug":"poll-republicans-much-more-motivated-to-vote-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/07\/02\/poll-republicans-much-more-motivated-to-vote-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Republicans Much More Motivated To Vote In November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I thought polls were news, then the article, <a title=\"Scary non-news\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2010\/07\/01\/96902\/poll-republicans-much-more-motivated.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Poll: Republicans much more motivated to vote in November<\/strong><\/a>, would be the scariest news I have read today.<\/p>\n<p>I had a conversation with someone yesterday who had left leaning, liberal political views.\u00a0 He said his vote for Scott Brown for Senator from Massachusetts was a hard decision.\u00a0 I asked how he could have voted for Brown for Senator.\u00a0 He said he was tired of the same people getting into office.\u00a0 Even if I concede the point about career politicians, the consequences of making things more difficult for President Obama&#8217;s agenda are so staggering, I cannot understand how people could fail to take this into account.<\/p>\n<p>The consequences of not being motivated are similarly staggering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I thought polls were news, then the article, Poll: Republicans much more motivated to vote in November, would be the scariest news I have read today. I had a conversation with someone yesterday who had left leaning, liberal political views.\u00a0 He said his vote for Scott Brown for Senator from Massachusetts was a hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4167,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}