{"id":26,"date":"2012-07-18T01:11:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T01:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaysnook.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2012-07-18T17:24:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:24:55","slug":"here-is-the-reason-i-think-voting-doesnt-count-for-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaysnook.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/18\/here-is-the-reason-i-think-voting-doesnt-count-for-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Here is the reason I think voting doesn&#8217;t count for much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Presidential race I watched the names of the lobbyists who were throwing hugely expensive parties during the two conventions. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know if that information will be available this year but it turned out that all the same lobbyists turned out at both conventions. \u00a0That puts their hooks into both the democrats and republicans. \u00a0No matter how you vote, \u00a0that person is already in the pocket of big business. \u00a0It is not some great conspiracy rather it is a legal way to buy off politicians. \u00a0There is a reason that the media is kept out. \u00a0Politicians refuse to attend any party that is not media free. \u00a0I think that is the most telling sign of business owning congress and Washington as a whole. \u00a0Feel free to vote for who you want, the lobbyists have that politician in their pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Presidential race I watched the names of the lobbyists who were throwing hugely expensive parties during the two conventions. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know if that information will be available this year but it turned out that all the same lobbyists turned out at both conventions. \u00a0That puts their hooks into both the democrats and republicans. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaysnook.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/18\/here-is-the-reason-i-think-voting-doesnt-count-for-much\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Here is the reason I think voting doesn&#8217;t count for much&#8221;<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysnook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysnook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysnook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysnook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysnook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysnook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysnook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysnook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysnook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysnook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}