{"id":620,"date":"2016-11-09T07:57:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T12:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=620"},"modified":"2016-11-09T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T21:07:07","slug":"shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Shocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sincerely hope my fear of Trump&#8217;s plans prove to be unfounded &#8212; hopefully he&#8217;s been playing a part during the primaries and\u00a0general election. Over the top promises made as an act, not\u00a0because he actually plans to ban Muslims and Mexicans en toto. Or create the Great Wall Prime. Or racial profiling. Or religious tests for entry into the country. Or stop-and-frisk. Or launching military action when another country&#8217;s navy makes rude gestures at our sailors. Or any number of outlandish statements he&#8217;s made.<\/p>\n<p>And if the current vote totals stay similar once every vote has come in, I hope this is enough to end the electoral college system.\u00a0If Bush\/Gore was not sufficient, I don&#8217;t hold out much hope. Especially since I don&#8217;t see ANYONE talking about the POPULAR vote where Clinton is leading. The focus is all on the EC\u00a0points &#8211; but I don&#8217;t see anyone asking why the EC is there in the first place. But maybe, once the final numbers come in, focus will shift to the system that allows someone to have\u00a0more votes than their competitors and\u00a0<em>lose<\/em> the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sincerely hope my fear of Trump&#8217;s plans prove to be unfounded &#8212; hopefully he&#8217;s been playing a part during the primaries and\u00a0general election. Over the top promises made as an act, not\u00a0because he actually plans to ban Muslims and Mexicans en toto. Or create the Great Wall Prime. Or racial profiling. Or religious tests &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}