{"id":23537,"date":"2013-09-18T15:21:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T23:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=23537"},"modified":"2013-09-18T15:21:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T23:21:16","slug":"23537","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=23537","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep hearing about all these mysterious &#8220;moderate Republicans&#8221; who are afraid of a primary challenge. Where the fuck are all these &#8220;moderate Republicans&#8221; &#8211; who seem from the polls to represent a majority of them &#8211; during the primaries? Why the holy fuck aren&#8217;t they voting? Do they not *know* how to vote in the fucking primaries? Do the &#8220;moderates&#8221; not register as Republicans or pay attention to primaries? When you go to restrictive closed primaries (as the GOP has in many states specifically in reaction to &#8220;moderates&#8221; influencing their Presidential picks too much) and you add in America&#8217;s historical shitty turnout in anything but the Big Ones (Presidential cycle general elections) \u00a0&#8211; really, it is terrible and has been since before primaries took over for closed party nominations &#8211; the base always has the ability to dominate primaries. So stupid.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep hearing about all these mysterious &#8220;moderate Republicans&#8221; who are afraid of a primary challenge. Where the fuck are all these &#8220;moderate Republicans&#8221; &#8211; who seem from the polls to represent a majority of them &#8211; during the primaries? Why the holy fuck aren&#8217;t they voting? Do they not *know* how to vote in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23541,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23537\/revisions\/23541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}