{"id":513,"date":"2004-06-24T19:45:07","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=513"},"modified":"2004-06-24T19:45:07","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T19:45:07","slug":"the_protest_vot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"The Protest Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kos has some interesting tidbits on Nader’s likely failure to get on the ballot in Arizona<\/a>. More than half of the signatures on the petition to get him on the ballot came from Republicans. Minneapolis has significant numbers of Green supporters and I know a few well-intentioned, politically naive people who are still considering voting for him. Maybe stories like this will persuade them that they’re being tools for the GOP. I understand wanting to support a candidate who was always opposed to the war, but this election is about other big issues, as well. It’s about better health care access, real education reform, the future of the Supreme Court, gay rights, civil liberties, raising the minimum wage, researching alternative energy sources, promoting stem cell research, and the list goes on. There’s no way in hell you can argue that Kerry and Bush are similar on any of these points. The Democrats were led like sheep into Iraq, but Nader has his own band of sheep who could unwittingly give us another four years of Bush. And I simply can’t understand how any true, rational progressive can support Nader at a time like this.
\nI’m going to see Fahrenheit 9\/11 on Saturday, so I better reserve my tickets at the Lagoon now. I’m betting it will be packed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kos has some interesting tidbits on Nader’s likely failure to get on the ballot in Arizona. More than half of the signatures on the petition to get him on the ballot came from Republicans. Minneapolis has significant numbers of Green supporters and I know a few well-intentioned, politically naive people who are still considering voting […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-8h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}