{"id":11815,"date":"2008-01-29T06:47:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/01\/29\/i-suppose-this-means-i-need-to-start-getting-serious.html"},"modified":"2008-01-29T06:47:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T13:47:16","slug":"i_suppose_this_means_i_ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/i_suppose_this_means_i_ne.html","title":{"rendered":"I suppose this means I need to start getting serious …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Colorado caucuses are less than a week away, and, frankly, I don’t know who I’m voting for.  I have gut feelings about both Clinton and Obama (and Edwards, for that matter), but should probably do some real research on positions before I go and, actually, y’know, choose<\/em>.<\/p>\n

(I am somewhat pleased that, honestly, I’d prefer any of them to any of the GOP candidates.  That said, it would be nice to vote for the one I like best in an informed fashion.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Colorado caucuses are less than a week away, and, frankly, I don’t know who I’m voting for.  I have gut feelings about both Clinton and Obama (and Edwards,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11906,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/04\/well_well_well_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":11815,"position":0},"title":"Well, well, well …","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 4-Jan-08 6:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's important not to overanalyze and overhype the results from the Iowa caucuses -- a oddball system in a relatively small state -- save that the results, because they...","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2008"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/voting-butterfly.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5714,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/20\/iowa_ii.html","url_meta":{"origin":11815,"position":1},"title":"Iowa II","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Jan-04 6:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"Now comes the morning after, as pundits proclaim how they knew all along (or how nobody knew) this is how the Iowa caucuses were going to turn out, and how...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11807,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/and_then_there_were_two_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":11815,"position":2},"title":"And then there were two","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 30-Jan-08 9:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"John Edwards was never going to be the person I voted for in the Democratic primaries\/caucuses ... but I thought he brought an important voice to a variety of issues...","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2008"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3508,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/05\/ive_got_issues.html","url_meta":{"origin":11815,"position":3},"title":"I’ve got issues","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Nov-02 1:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Fortunately, today they're on the ballot, here in beeyooteeful Colorado. 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