{"id":31283,"date":"2012-11-08T13:51:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T20:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/getting-out-the-vote.html"},"modified":"2013-05-01T07:42:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T13:42:42","slug":"getting-out-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/getting-out-the-vote.html","title":{"rendered":"Getting out the vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were a lot of worries over the last few years that Obama&#39;s less-than-progressive track record was going to cause &quot;enthusiasm&quot; problems for support of the Democratic ticket this year. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Obama can thank the GOP for drumming up Romney &quot;anti-enthusiasm&quot; to counter that problem. Because between the GOP primary Race to the Right and some of the charming anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-contraception, rapey-rape-rape, anti-99%, anti-47%, etc., etc., remarks coming from GOP leaders and candidates and prominent supporters this year, there was plenty of enthusiasm to go around for younger voters to keep Romney (et al.) <i>out<\/i> of office.<\/p>\n<p>While this was bad news for Romney and the GOP, it&#39;s not exactly comforting for the Democrats, I believe.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/852636\/thumbs\/s-YOUNG-VOTERS-2012-ELECTION-large.jpg?4&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/11\/07\/young-voters-2012-obama_n_2089789.html'>How Young Voters Became The Deciding Factor In The 2012 Election<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNEW YORK &#8212; Mitt Romney lost the youth vote by a huge margin, and with it, he lost the presidency. Sixty percent of young voters who cast ballots chose to reelect President Barack Obama, against the 3&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/3jKjCCdGBxy' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were a lot of worries over the last few years that Obama&#39;s less-than-progressive track record was going to cause &quot;enthusiasm&quot; problems for support of the Democratic ticket this year. \u00a0 Obama can thank the GOP for drumming up Romney &quot;anti-enthusiasm&quot; to counter that problem. Because between the GOP primary Race to the Right and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/getting-out-the-vote.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting out the vote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","_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":[106,347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-voting-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27690,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/and-the-purification-continues.html","url_meta":{"origin":31283,"position":0},"title":"And the Purification continues","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-May-12 3:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The GOP continues to push to the margins, to the shadows, dare I say even into the closet, anyone of influence or public prominence who happens to be gay -- unless they are anti-gay-rights gays. When a neo-con foreign policy spokesman for Romney, a gent who's a former spokesman for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30949,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/so-which-group-is-he-lying-to.html","url_meta":{"origin":31283,"position":1},"title":"So which group is he lying to?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 30-Oct-12 10:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because during the GOP primaries and before various appreciative audiences since then, Romney's been staunchly anti-abortion and all gung-ho to overturn Roe v. Wade. \u00a0But now he's all, \"Well, heck, nothing I can do about it, it's not on my agenda, so don't worry your pretty little heads\" on the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26882,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/no-gop-fat-lady-anywhere-ready-to-sing.html","url_meta":{"origin":31283,"position":2},"title":"No GOP Fat Lady anywhere ready to sing","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Mar-12 2:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The five takeaways:1. The bulk of upcoming contests are not in Romney-friendly states.2. There's a lot of unenthusiasm about the candidates (even the ones voted for).3. There's a serious divide between \"very\" and \"somewhat\" conservative voters.4. There's a serious divide between \"principle\" and \"pragmatic\" conservatives (basically restating #3).5. Santorum and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30799,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/its-almost-worth-it-just-to-see-bryan-fischer-have-a-conniption.html","url_meta":{"origin":31283,"position":3},"title":"It&#39;s almost worth it just to see Bryan Fischer have a conniption","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Oct-12 9:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Of course, Fischer has resisted Romney as a candidate tooth and claw, being staunchly anti-Mormon (including them in the group of non-Christian religions that only get to freely practice because of true Christians granting them the privilege, not because they are covered under the First Amendment, which Fischer says only\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30623,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/tweets-from-2012-10-16.html","url_meta":{"origin":31283,"position":4},"title":"Tweets from 2012-10-16","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 16-Oct-12 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I appear to have stayed up too late last night. Also, I appear to have left my Kindle at home. #notagoodstart # Doing Write: So maybe, maybe not Link #nanowrimo # 4 of 5 stars to The One Minute Manager Anniversary Ed by Kenneth H. Blanchard Link # Pretty good\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30252,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/house-gop-learns-a-lesson-from-romney-chutzpah.html","url_meta":{"origin":31283,"position":5},"title":"House GOP learns a lesson from Romney chutzpah","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Sep-12 9:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or maybe the other way around. \u00a0While Romney's camp launches odd attacks against the Obama Administration for supporting requests from GOP governors for flexibility in handling work-to-welfare programs, the House GOP is putting forward legislation to block such requests from GOP governors ... even while conveniently forgetting that they previously\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33465,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31283\/revisions\/33465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}