{"id":239,"date":"2004-11-01T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danflies.wordpress.com\/2004\/11\/01\/largest-untapped-voting-block-the-non-voter"},"modified":"2004-11-01T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T23:59:00","slug":"largest-untapped-voting-block-the-non-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/largest-untapped-voting-block-the-non-voter\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest untapped voting block &#8211; the non-voter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A3439-2004Oct27.html\">NONE OF THE ABOVE (washingtonpost.com)<\/a>: &#8220;MOST AMERICANS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE, DON&#8217;T.<\/p>\n<p>It may be hard to believe, and harder to accept, but the numbers are inescapable. In recent presidential elections &#8212; the quadrennial events that are the pinnacle for voter turnout &#8212; roughly half the potential voting population chose not to exercise its franchise. For some off-year elections, barely a quarter of eligible voters show up. Even this year&#8217;s ballyhooed spike in registration is considered unlikely to boost turnout to 60 percent, or anywhere near.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NONE OF THE ABOVE (washingtonpost.com): &#8220;MOST AMERICANS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE, DON&#8217;T. It may be hard to believe, and harder to accept, but the numbers are inescapable. In recent presidential elections &#8212; the quadrennial events that are the pinnacle for voter turnout &#8212; roughly half the potential voting population chose not to exercise its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}