{"id":28828,"date":"2012-08-08T08:16:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T14:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=28828"},"modified":"2012-08-08T08:16:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T14:16:28","slug":"election-bits-from-2012-08-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/election-bits-from-2012-08-07.html","title":{"rendered":"Election Bits from 2012-08-07"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Only ninety-odd days left …<\/p>\n

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  1. Buying friends and influencing people<\/a>\u00a0– The Romney campaign buys “friends” on Facebook.<\/li>\n
  2. They prefer a muddy line, thank you very much<\/a>\u00a0– Because as long as “charity” groups don’t have guidelines about how much they can contribute to political campaigns, those campaigns (mostly GOP) are sitting pretty.<\/li>\n
  3. Romney, once again with the flip-flop<\/a>\u00a0– Romney accuses Obama of gutting welfare reform \u00a0by doing something that Romney himself wanted done back when he was governor. \u00a0Sigh.<\/li>\n
  4. Liberal media bias for the election? Apparently not<\/a>\u00a0– In fact, anything but, from this analysis.<\/li>\n
  5. I’d be more amused if these nuts didn’t have guns<\/a>\u00a0– The “The President is going to declare martial law and get rid of the elections” meme is back, zanier than ever.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Only ninety-odd days left … Buying friends and influencing people\u00a0– The Romney campaign buys “friends” on Facebook. They prefer a muddy line, thank you very much\u00a0– Because as long as “charity” groups don’t have guidelines about how much they can contribute to political campaigns, those campaigns (mostly GOP) are sitting pretty. Romney, once again with … Continue reading “Election Bits from 2012-08-07”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[3,99,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-elections-2012","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30783,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/romney-government-stimulus-bad-but-it-makes-for-a-nice-speaking-venue.html","url_meta":{"origin":28828,"position":0},"title":"Romney: Government Stimulus = Bad (but it makes for a nice speaking venue)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Oct-12 2:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Romney: Government Stimulus = Bad (but it makes for a nice speaking venue)Mentioned only for (a) the mild irony and (b) it's a local landmark. 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