{"id":46231,"date":"2014-11-04T23:21:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T06:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/democrats-who-stay-home-elect-republicans.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T08:14:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T15:14:38","slug":"democrats-who-stay-home-elect-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/democrats-who-stay-home-elect-republicans.html","title":{"rendered":"Democrats who stay home elect Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opposite is true, too. So if you haven&#39;t voted yet &#8212; vote!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Alex P<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42  Please plan to vote early, in the morning or early afternoon, so you don&#39;t run out of time on Tuesday.  \ud83d\ude42  Call your boss and say you will arrive 1 hour late or take a longer lunch break, etc.  Don&#39;t worry if a few Senate or House seats may be lost to Republicans, we just want the least seats to be lost, and to do that we need to vote in big numbers.  \ud83d\ude42 Call all relatives and have everyone vote.  All friends.  \ud83d\ude42   Thank you.  We create our destiny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/110265788529286523789\/albums\/6077529160407417041\/6077529165692044066'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-emAYf2q537U\/VFe4k3kmgyI\/AAAAAAAAa00\/ic9C2KyYB9E\/dems-home.jpg?imgmax=660' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/5Yk15LaERaC'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opposite is true, too. So if you haven&#39;t voted yet &#8212; vote! Originally shared by +Alex P: \ud83d\ude42 Please plan to vote early, in the morning or early afternoon, so you don&#39;t run out of time on Tuesday. \ud83d\ude42 Call your boss and say you will arrive 1 hour late or take a longer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/democrats-who-stay-home-elect-republicans.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Democrats who stay home elect Republicans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46232,"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":[106,353],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2014"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/dems-home.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135654,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/13\/alabama-example-gerrymandering.html","url_meta":{"origin":46231,"position":0},"title":"An Alabama Example of Gerrymandering","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 13-Dec-17 2:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is why politicians -- primarily, at the moment, GOP ones -- like gerrymandering. Also an example of why some conservatives want to get rid of the 17th Amendment and move US Senate elections back to the (gerrymandered) state legislatures. Jones won 49% of the state-wide vote; Moore won 48%.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/alabama-jones-moore-gerrymander.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":129885,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/you-can-thank-republicans-for-all-that-spacious-leg-room-on-air-flights.html","url_meta":{"origin":46231,"position":1},"title":"You can thank Republicans for all that spacious leg room on air flights","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 21-Feb-16 2:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, no, that's probably unfair. But the GOP head of the House Transportation Committee did just successfully get a Nay vote on a proposal that would let the FAA study the health and safety issues around increasingly narrower airline seats with less leg room, and allow the FAA to set\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":46050,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/23\/as-we-hurtle-toward-the-election.html","url_meta":{"origin":46231,"position":2},"title":"As we hurtle toward the election","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Oct-14 5:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My wife and I have voted. I would encourage everyone else to do so, too. Yes, even Republicans (I, for one, think heavy voting is better on principle than light voting, even when it doesn't favor my point of view), but particularly for Democrats. 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