{"id":31294,"date":"2012-11-09T06:59:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/a-tale-of-two-elections-2008-and-2012.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:22:50","slug":"a-tale-of-two-elections-2008-and-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/a-tale-of-two-elections-2008-and-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Elections: 2008 and 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, some thing haven&#39;t changed, including the wingnutty doomsaying \u00a0vitriol over Obama having been elected:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/tales_from_the_fringe.html\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/tales_from_the_fringe.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, compare the gays elected to office and the gay marriage ballot initiative wins this year, vs. how things looked in November 2008:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/with_an_admixture_of_sadn.html\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/with_an_admixture_of_sadn.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/5808812467784608881\/5808812470887808882'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/--td6JRvIFlM\/UJ0MKnYgf3I\/AAAAAAAAO5U\/J6hYm3imLYs\/overly-dramatic-music.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/VGtuVCedaRV' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/VGtuVCedaRV' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, some thing haven&#39;t changed, including the wingnutty doomsaying \u00a0vitriol over Obama having been elected:\u00a0https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/tales_from_the_fringe.html On the other hand, compare the gays elected to office and the gay marriage ballot initiative wins this year, vs. how things looked in November 2008:\u00a0https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/with_an_admixture_of_sadn.html Google+: Reshared 1 times Google+: View post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[106,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marriage-equality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17090,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-mon-12-apr-2010-201am.html","url_meta":{"origin":31294,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Mon, 12 Apr 2010,  2:01AM","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Apr-10 12:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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