{"id":61446,"date":"2016-12-22T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61446"},"modified":"2016-12-22T08:43:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T14:43:02","slug":"why-the-electoral-college-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61446","title":{"rendered":"Why The Electoral College Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It protects the minority\u00a0<em>from<\/em> the majority.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/EC-Map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-61447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/EC-Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/EC-Map.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/EC-Map-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/EC-Map-768x518.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/EC-Map-1024x691.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/EC-Map-444x300.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given that Florida and Texas are fairly red and growing fast, and New York and California are blue and shrinking, I&#8217;d suspect a lot of liberals would agree that that&#8217;s going to be a good thing for them before too terribly long.<\/p>\n<p>But watching how the left is panicking over executive orders and the &#8220;nuclear option&#8221; now, after applauding Obama and Harry Reid for for broadening EOs and the Nuclear Option, I don&#8217;t think long-term planning is one of their strong suits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It protects the minority\u00a0from the majority. Given that Florida and Texas are fairly red and growing fast, and New York and California are blue and shrinking, I&#8217;d suspect a lot of liberals would agree that that&#8217;s going to be a good thing for them before too terribly long. But watching how the left is panicking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61446","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=61446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61448,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61446\/revisions\/61448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}