{"id":1335,"date":"2003-06-27T08:04:02","date_gmt":"2003-06-27T22:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/27\/glad-im-not-a-republican\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:34:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:34:12","slug":"glad-im-not-a-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/27\/glad-im-not-a-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Glad I&#039;m not a Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14345,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.freerepublic.com\\\/focus\\\/f-news\\\/936715\\\/posts?page=26&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260312211841\\\/https:\\\/\\\/freerepublic.com\\\/focus\\\/f-news\\\/936715\\\/posts?page=26&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/freerepublic.com\\\/focus\\\/f-news\\\/936715\\\/posts?page=26&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 11:22:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 08:15:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 08:15:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14346,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.freerepublic.com\\\/~pmarlowe&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250501004336\\\/https:\\\/\\\/freerepublic.com\\\/~pmarlowe\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 21:17:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 08:15:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 08:15:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14347,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.freerepublic.com\\\/focus\\\/f-news\\\/936715\\\/posts?page=26#26&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260312211841\\\/https:\\\/\\\/freerepublic.com\\\/focus\\\/f-news\\\/936715\\\/posts?page=26&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/freerepublic.com\\\/focus\\\/f-news\\\/936715\\\/posts?page=26&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 08:15:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 08:15:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14348,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/archives\\\/003196.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/archives\\\/003196.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This was a comment posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/936715\/posts?page=26\" title=\"Dean wins! Dean wins!\">Free Republic&#8217;s snarky announcement<\/a> of the MoveOn primary results:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  You have to realize that this was an INTERNET poll and therefore those who participated in it had to be able to read. So if you take away the illiterate vote, which comprises about 50% of the democratic base, you get these skewed results.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/~pmarlowe\/\" title=\"P-Marlowe\">P-Marlowe<\/a>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/936715\/posts?page=26#26\" title=\"Dean wins! Dean wins!\">Free Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(indirectly via &#8216;Angry White Democrat&#8217; in the comments to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/archives\/003196.html\" title=\"Dean wins Moveon primary, but not really\">Daily Kos&#8217; take on the results<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to realize that this was an INTERNET poll and therefore those who participated in it had to be able to read. So if you take away the illiterate vote, which comprises about 50% of the democratic base, you get these skewed results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}