{"id":32520,"date":"2013-02-14T09:14:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/votes-women-and-guns.html"},"modified":"2013-02-14T09:14:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:14:26","slug":"votes-women-and-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/votes-women-and-guns.html","title":{"rendered":"Votes, women, and guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this kind of thing should be slathered with all sorts of caveats, including that it&#39;s still a year and a half before the next election and what the next hot issue is could change at the drop of a hat.<\/p>\n<p><i>But,<\/i> all that said, there are some indications that the gun issue <i>could<\/i> increase turnout by women in support of Democrats. And while I hate to focus on issues primarily for electoral purposes, knowing that might encourage the Dems to stand up for reasonable gun control policies for the time being.<\/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:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/assets_c\/2013\/02\/shot-show-gun-01-17-13-cropped-proto-custom_6.jpg&#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:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2013\/02\/women-guns-2014-poll.php'>GOP\u2019s Obsession With Guns Stands To Drive Women Vote In The 2014 Election: Poll<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA survey released by Women Donors Network a self-described progressive \u201ccommunity of women philanthropists,\u201d found that a subset of women voters who usually don\u2019t vote in midterm elections are more li&#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\/FxxDiYkN7o4' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this kind of thing should be slathered with all sorts of caveats, including that it&#39;s still a year and a half before the next election and what the next hot issue is could change at the drop of a hat. But, all that said, there are some indications that the gun issue could increase &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/votes-women-and-guns.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Votes, women, and guns&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32520","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":128238,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/05\/in-fighting-gun-violence-knowledge-is-power.html","url_meta":{"origin":32520,"position":0},"title":"In fighting gun violence, knowledge is power","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Oct-15 12:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Which is one reason why the gun lobby is so keen to keep knowledge about gun deaths and injuries to a minimum, let alone addressing gun violence as a public health issue (besides vague handwaving about \"the crazies\").The article's \"new way\" isn't all that new, but it's useful. 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