{"id":7078,"date":"2004-11-02T14:35:55","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T21:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/11\/02\/now-they-tell-me.html"},"modified":"2004-11-02T14:35:55","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T21:35:55","slug":"now_they_tell_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/02\/now_they_tell_m.html","title":{"rendered":"Now they tell me …"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rocky Mountain News <\/em>has a nice little “ballot builder<\/a>” that builds you a sample ballot, lets you (sorta) compare your positions with candidates, and links to candidate bios (which is a scosh better than simply voting the party ticket for the local\/county offices). Nice.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t already cast your ballot here, it’s worth a quick look-see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rocky Mountain News has a nice little “ballot builder” that builds you a sample ballot, lets you (sorta) compare your positions with candidates, and links to candidate bios (which…<\/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":"","_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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2004"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9919,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/10\/we_get_mailers.html","url_meta":{"origin":7078,"position":0},"title":"We Get Mailers","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Oct-06 6:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We've been getting a wide array of political mailers -- some singly, some in partisan bundles -- the last week of so. 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