{"id":31,"date":"2004-11-03T10:06:42","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T15:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=31"},"modified":"2004-11-13T23:41:02","modified_gmt":"2004-11-14T04:41:02","slug":"your-vote-means-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2004\/11\/03\/your-vote-means-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Your vote means nothing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/chronicle\/photos\/ohio.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/chronicle\/photos\/ohio.jpg\" align=right vspace=5 hspace=10 width=\"200\" height=\"208\" alt=\"image\"\/><\/a>If you live in New Mexico or Iowa this morning. Your states haven&#8217;t declared a presidential winner and it doesn&#8217;t matter when they do.  I was wrong about New Mexico last night.  Some guy&#8217;s uncounted, provisional ballot in Ohio means more to the countries political future than your official, counted vote.  It&#8217;s quite amazing that something like 5 million people voted in Ohio.  That&#8217;s a turnout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in New Mexico or Iowa this morning. Your states haven&#8217;t declared a presidential winner and it doesn&#8217;t matter when they do. I was wrong about New Mexico last night. Some guy&#8217;s uncounted, provisional ballot in Ohio means more to the countries political future than your official, counted vote. It&#8217;s quite amazing that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2004\/11\/03\/your-vote-means-nothing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your vote means nothing.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you live in New Mexico or Iowa this morning. Your states haven&#039;t declared a presidential winner and it doesn&#039;t matter when they do. I was wrong about New Mexico last night. 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