{"id":55287,"date":"2015-09-21T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55287"},"modified":"2015-09-20T20:55:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T01:55:25","slug":"ballot-fodder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55287","title":{"rendered":"Ballot Fodder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A regular reader of this blog (whose name does\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>rhyme with &#8220;Moe Jokes&#8221;) writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I know this has been talked about in Minneapolis for a few months, but when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2015\/09\/15\/minneapolis-landlords-voting-info\">I read the following<\/a>, I just couldn&#8217;t help but think that if you don&#8217;t rate voting as a high priority, perhaps you shouldn&#8217;t be voting.\u00a0 Perhaps, if you need your landlord to hold your hand through life&#8217;s responsibilities, you aren&#8217;t yet ready to live away from your parents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Council Member Jacob Frey, who sponsored the measure, said he could have used the reminder about voter registration when he was younger and frequently changed apartments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re thinking about your study group and your track team and the girlfriend and the social and what you&#8217;re going to do that weekend, and all the other trillions of stimuli that you have at a university, for instance, you don&#8217;t think to register,&#8221; Frey said.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You ever notice how the Democrat &#8220;get out the vote&#8221; machine is focused almost to exclusion on reaching people who don&#8217;t pay much attention to government and politics?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A regular reader of this blog (whose name does\u00a0not\u00a0rhyme with &#8220;Moe Jokes&#8221;) writes: I know this has been talked about in Minneapolis for a few months, but when I read the following, I just couldn&#8217;t help but think that if you don&#8217;t rate voting as a high priority, perhaps you shouldn&#8217;t be voting.\u00a0 Perhaps, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55288,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55287\/revisions\/55288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}