{"id":3990,"date":"2008-09-10T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T15:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2008-09-10T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T15:03:56","slug":"election-quandry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/election-quandry\/","title":{"rendered":"Election quandry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Votehelp.org<\/a> “analyzed” my political viewpoints and presented an interesting stat.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama agrees with me 87% of the time.
\nJohn McCain agrees with me 81% of the time.<\/p>\n

I’m sure those statements could be twisted in all sorts of ways – but makes me realize even more so how both of these candidates have gotten to where they are by “pandering” or appealing to the broadest number of people.<\/p>\n

I don’t know that we could have someone who’s on the extreme left or right win their party’s nomination these days – unless its an outside party like the Green Party, Constitutional Party or some mix in between.<\/p>\n

Typically in recent months\/years the political survey’s I’ve taken have put me pretty close to dead center or more towards a Libertarian view of politics. So – does that mean these candidates would score the same \ud83d\ude09 or are we different\/similar on enough different\/similar issues that I got these comparison stats?<\/p>\n

Guess I’ll have to wait and see what Ron Paul’s announcement is later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Votehelp.org “analyzed” my political viewpoints and presented an interesting stat. Barack Obama agrees with me 87% of the time. John McCain agrees with me 81% of the time. I’m sure those statements could be twisted in all sorts of ways – but makes me realize even more so how both of these candidates have gotten … Continue reading Election quandry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[85,277,57,482,1450],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign","tag-john-mccain","tag-presidential","tag-votehelporg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-12m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}