{"id":7359,"date":"2003-11-05T13:33:33","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T18:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/11\/05\/how-not-to-get-the-southern-vote\/"},"modified":"2003-11-05T13:33:33","modified_gmt":"2003-11-05T18:33:33","slug":"how-not-to-get-the-southern-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/11\/how-not-to-get-the-southern-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to get the Southern vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean told a Tallahassee audience today that southerners have to quit basing their votes on &#8220;race, guns, God and gays.&#8221;<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/mld\/democrat\/7181952.htm\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I guess he is doing his Democratic penance for saying last week that he wants &#8220;to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.&#8221;  And as for God, leave him out of your voting practices, that way we can get you to vote Democrat.  What does God have to do with morality anyway? <\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Real intelligent way to appeal to southerners by implying they are racist.  Southern states have elected more non-whites to high government positions including governor by far than any northern state especially like Vermont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">And please vote Democrat where we now base our votes on &#8220;Abortion on demand, Abortion on demand, Abortion on demand, and least we forget Abortion on demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean told a Tallahassee audience today that southerners have to quit basing their votes on &#8220;race, guns, God and gays.&#8221;[Full Story] I guess he is doing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}