{"id":1345,"date":"2003-06-30T15:31:06","date_gmt":"2003-07-01T05:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/30\/dollars-dont-equal-votes\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:29:50","slug":"dollars-dont-equal-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/30\/dollars-dont-equal-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollars don&#039;t equal votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14322,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.deanforamerica.com\\\/archives\\\/000571.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Mr.\u00a0Bush raised 3 million Dollars today with a 2000 dollar a plate Dinner which most Americans can&#8217;t even think about being able to afford.<\/p>\n<p>  Gov.\u00a0Howard Dean raised 756,000 dollars today (as of 10:30pm EST) with each contribution averaging 66.00 dollars.<\/p>\n<p>  Let&#8217;s do the math<\/p>\n<p>  3,000,000\/2000 = 1,500 people<\/p>\n<p>  756,000\/66.00 = 11,454.5 people<\/p>\n<p>  Don&#8217;t ever be discouraged by dollars. <strong>Dollars don&#8217;t equal votes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  We did make history. Politics will never be the same.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Michael (not me) in the comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.deanforamerica.com\/archives\/000571.html\" title=\"Thank you!\">Blog for America<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t ever be discouraged by dollars. Dollars don&#8217;t equal votes.<\/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":[14],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","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=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}