{"id":1309,"date":"2008-11-04T22:47:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T03:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2008-11-04T22:47:16","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T03:47:16","slug":"fidgeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2008\/11\/04\/fidgeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidgeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first election in a long time that I haven&#8217;t felt only resignation when casting my ballot.  I hope that there&#8217;s a decisive result tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hearing some people say &#8220;get rid of the electoral college&#8221; &#8211; I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s necessarily a good idea.  Here&#8217;s what <i>I<\/i> would say, if I got to make the rules:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Electoral votes should be split &#8211; popular vote by district.<\/li>\n<li>ALL primaries have to be on the same day.<\/li>\n<li>Black out news coverage until the last polls close. None of this &#8220;calling&#8221; a state with 10% of the vote counted.  Wait for it, dammit!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hey, look!  <a href=\"http:\/\/seantevis.com\/kansas\/3000\/running-for-office-xkcd-style\/\">Sean Tevis<\/a> is at 50% for Kansas House!  Neat!<\/p>\n<p>Now back to chewing fingernails&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first election in a long time that I haven&#8217;t felt only resignation when casting my ballot. I hope that there&#8217;s a decisive result tonight. I&#8217;m hearing some people say &#8220;get rid of the electoral college&#8221; &#8211; I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s necessarily a good idea. Here&#8217;s what I would say, if I got to make the rules: Electoral votes should be split &#8211; popular vote by district. ALL primaries have to be on the same day. Black out news coverage until the last polls close. None of this &#8220;calling&#8221; a state with 10% of the vote counted. Wait for it, dammit! Hey, look! Sean Tevis is at 50% for Kansas House! Neat! Now back to chewing fingernails&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[85,110],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}