{"id":3531,"date":"2010-12-04T00:33:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T08:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2010-12-04T00:33:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T08:33:46","slug":"why-do-people-vote-for-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/04\/why-do-people-vote-for-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do People Vote for Republicans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The results of last months elections remain a sore subject with me.&#160; If the only people who voted for them had been the ones that actually benefit from Republican rule they would have gotten about 2% of the votes.&#160; That won\u2019t win elections for anyone.&#160; Every one else who voted for Republicans was voting against their own well being, and what could possess voters to be so foolish has puzzled me.&#160; I\u2019m not the only one.&#160; The same question shows up in our comments section from readers day after day.&#160; Then yesterday, a friend with whom I do volunteer work in prison sent me a video.&#160; It\u2019s not even about voting Republican per se.&#160; I don\u2019t even know the political persuasion of the people who made it, although I suspect they may be selling something.&#160; Nevertheless, watching it was a light bulb moment of insight into many who voted Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fOshw4kIGR4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fOshw4kIGR4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com\/videos\/socio-economics\/black-friday-madness-of-a-lost-society.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com\/videos\/socio-economics\/black-friday-madness-of-a-lost-society.html<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What do you think?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of last months elections remain a sore subject with me.&#160; If the only people who voted for them had been the ones that actually benefit from Republican rule they would have gotten about 2% of the votes.&#160; That won\u2019t win elections for anyone.&#160; Every one else who voted for Republicans was voting against <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/04\/why-do-people-vote-for-republicans\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}