{"id":137733,"date":"2019-01-31T19:28:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T02:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/31\/mitch-mcconnell-and-the-horror-of-a-voting-public-holiday.html"},"modified":"2019-01-31T19:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T02:28:42","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-and-the-horror-of-a-voting-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/31\/mitch-mcconnell-and-the-horror-of-a-voting-public-holiday.html","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell and the Horror of a Voting Public Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitch doesn't want more people to vote. Especially if they are, statistically, most likely Democrats. Not that he's going to make it any easier for Republicans<\/i> to vote alongside them, mind you. He's fine<\/i> with low<\/i> voter turn-out scenarios that are only convenient for retirees and people who can set their own hours. Since those are most likely, statistically, Republicans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Mitch doesn't want more people to vote. Especially if they are, statistically, most likely Democrats. Not that he's going to make it any easier for Republicans to vote alongside them, mind you. He's fine with low voter turn-out scenarios that are only convenient for retirees and people who can set their own hours. Since those … Continue reading “Mitch McConnell and the Horror of a Voting Public Holiday”<\/span><\/a><\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138952,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/28\/in-case-there-was-any-doubt-mitch-mcconnell-is-a-partisan-hack.html","url_meta":{"origin":137733,"position":0},"title":"In case there was any doubt, Mitch McConnell is a partisan hack","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-May-19 10:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"His reversal on SCOTUS appointment timing settles it.","rel":"","context":"In "Poor Citizenship"","block_context":{"text":"Poor Citizenship","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/poor-citizenship"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mitch-mcconnell-laugh.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mitch-mcconnell-laugh.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mitch-mcconnell-laugh.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mitch-mcconnell-laugh.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mitch-mcconnell-laugh.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mitch-mcconnell-laugh.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":130207,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/16\/mitch-mcconnell-is-a-dolt-the-informal-three-year-presidency-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":137733,"position":1},"title":"Mitch McConnell is a Dolt (The Informal Three Year Presidency Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Mar-16 6:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is, for the moment, sticking to his guns about not even holding hearings on anyone President Obama nominates to the Supreme Court. 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