{"id":1253,"date":"2022-10-23T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2022-10-23T00:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:00:21","slug":"swing-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Swing State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The last time I voted in either a Presidential or mid-term election I lived in a state that was completely controlled by Democrats. I knew my vote for anyone this side of Genghis Khan wouldn&#8217;t matter so I voted my conscience.  Now I live in a swing state and my vote might matter. Even though I believe in many of the principles of the left when it comes to social issues I&#8217;m afraid their affinity for Socialism is going to make me vote for Republicans. I see very little difference between them but with the mess the left is making of this country now I can&#8217;t see how anyone thinks it should continue. Vote them out of office and if we are lucky they can at least slow down the damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I voted in either a Presidential or mid-term election I lived in a state that was completely controlled by Democrats. I knew my vote for anyone this side of Genghis Khan wouldn&#8217;t matter so I voted my conscience. Now I live in a swing state and my vote might matter. Even though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}