{"id":127,"date":"2008-09-10T11:05:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T15:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2008\/09\/10\/voting\/"},"modified":"2008-09-10T11:05:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T15:05:03","slug":"voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2008\/09\/10\/voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sorry to say that I sat out yesterday\u2019s primary. I just could not figure out what was truth and what was lies and what was half truths. So I could not even pick \u201clessor of two evils.\u201d I grow more and more disenchanted with the whole process. I will clearly have to do more research before November.<\/p>\n<p>Related to research I took a questionnaire at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votehelp.org\/\">http:\/\/www.votehelp.org\/<\/a> today. It gives me about an 85% match with McCain and a 74% match with Obama. Actually though I agree with Obama on slightly more things than with McCain but the weight I put on the various issues tilts the balance toward McCain. Even with about 30+ questions some things I worry about did not make their list so as unclear as this result is things are worse in real life.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>My tiebreaker issue in recent elections has been the Supreme Court. As unhappy as I have been with very much of what Bush has done I think he\u2019s done ok by me with Supreme Court selections. The recent decision on the DC gun ban case was huge in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>The VP choice is not such a big deal for me. I am cynical enough to believe that both choices were more about political expediency than real serious thought about who would be the best person to take over as President. Candidates just don\u2019t think they\u2019ll die in office. Even still we have a choice between one person who may not be experienced enough to get things done and another who is experienced enough but who would do things that scare me. Not a great option either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sorry to say that I sat out yesterday\u2019s primary. I just could not figure out what was truth and what was lies and what was half truths. So I could not even pick \u201clessor of two evils.\u201d I grow more and more disenchanted with the whole process. I will clearly have to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}