{"id":230,"date":"2011-11-18T15:36:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=230"},"modified":"2011-11-18T15:36:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:36:32","slug":"vote-for-gerry-mandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/11\/18\/vote-for-gerry-mandering\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for Gerry Mandering!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why your vote for Congress might not matter<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/11\/18\/politics\/gerrymandering\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/11\/18\/politics\/gerrymandering\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have written about this before (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sol-system.com\/koxenrider\/bok\/FrothingModerates.html\">http:\/\/www.sol-system.com\/koxenrider\/bok\/FrothingModerates.html<\/a>) but thought I would comment a bit here (and maybe get someone to read my other article ;-).\u00a0 While money is certain a prime contributor (possibly number one), Gerrymandering is clearly a huge contributing factor to our corrupt government.\u00a0 By essentially arranging districts so that they are either wacko right or left (with the occasional center so at least the fringe doesn&#8217;t get diluted) has a lock on the election then the election decision is a forgone conclusion, thus allowing the representative to cater to whomsoever pays him\/her the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why your vote for Congress might not matter http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/11\/18\/politics\/gerrymandering\/index.html I have written about this before (http:\/\/www.sol-system.com\/koxenrider\/bok\/FrothingModerates.html) but thought I would comment a bit here (and maybe get someone to read my other article ;-).\u00a0 While money is certain a prime contributor (possibly number one), Gerrymandering is clearly a huge contributing factor to our corrupt government.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/11\/18\/vote-for-gerry-mandering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vote for Gerry Mandering!&#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":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}