{"id":494,"date":"2008-07-24T10:32:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T14:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2008\/07\/24\/apathy\/"},"modified":"2008-07-24T10:32:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T14:32:26","slug":"apathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2008\/07\/24\/apathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Apathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not personal, but political apathy. I live in the District of Columbia, and while we do not have a vote in Congress (the branch of the Federal government under whose jurisdiction we fall), we do have a vote for President, with three votes in the electoral college, thanks to the twenty third amendment to the US constitution.<\/p>\n<p>However, the District voter base is approximately 8,953% registered Democrats, so the vote is assured to Sen. Obama, regardless of which way I might choose to vote. And that makes it hard to get worked up\/excited about the election, since my particular vote isn&#8217;t going to affect the outcome in the least. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;ll still get out and vote, but it&#8217;s difficult to force myself to care much about the election news I stumble across during the day when my vote doesn&#8217;t really matter here.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not personal, but political apathy. I live in the District of Columbia, and while we do not have a vote in Congress (the branch of the Federal government under whose jurisdiction we fall), we do have a vote for President, with three votes in the electoral college, thanks to the twenty third amendment to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}