{"id":25653,"date":"2022-08-03T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=25653"},"modified":"2022-08-03T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:42:38","slug":"elections-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=25653","title":{"rendered":"Elections matter&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;yesterday was the first election since the corrupt supreme court overturned Roe and all of the pundits who said that the ruling wouldn&#8217;t have much of an effect were just flat out wrong&#8230;especially in Kansas, a blood red state, that voted to keep the right to an abortion in the state constitution by an almost 20% margin with turnout that exceeded any primary in the state&#8217;s history&#8230;and I think that shows that our side is pretty damn motivated and will turn out in November&#8230;it is looking like we may even gain seats in the senate and possibly hold onto the house if our side just gets off it&#8217;s ass and spends an hour to vote&#8230;.or here in Michigan, just get a permanent absentee ballot and vote from home like I do&#8230;..and do that because elections matter and we can have nice things again if we just vote all the repubs out and elect people from the reality based world&#8230;.and remember, there is a constitutional amendment on this fall&#8217;s ballot that will enshrine women&#8217;s rights in the constitution&#8230;and if for no other reason, vote for that and let&#8217;s show the rest of the country that Michigan will not let a corrupt supreme court take away women&#8217;s rights&#8230;it&#8217;s the least we can do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;yesterday was the first election since the corrupt supreme court overturned Roe and all of the pundits who said that the ruling wouldn&#8217;t have much of an effect were just flat out wrong&#8230;especially in Kansas, a blood red state, that voted to keep the right to an abortion in the state constitution by an almost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=25653\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elections matter&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[709,585],"class_list":["post-25653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-abortion-rights","tag-kansas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25654,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25653\/revisions\/25654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}