{"id":265,"date":"2008-11-07T14:26:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T14:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2008-11-07T14:26:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T14:26:29","slug":"why_honest_elections_matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Why Honest Elections Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norm Coleman had a 700+ vote lead Thursday.&nbsp; That lead is now down to 236 votes.&nbsp; That&#8217;s interesting.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/matthew-vadum\/2008\/11\/07\/media-ignore-fact-minn-recount-boss-mark-ritchie-acorn-ally\">Newsbusters<\/a>&nbsp;has an article that points out that the people overseeing the recount are deeply involved with ACORN.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The quote to keep in mind is from an article the original article links to.&nbsp; The concept is very simple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&#8220;The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.&#8221; &#8211; Joseph Stalin<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I wish I could say that I was fully confident that the recount would be handled honestly, but I am not.&nbsp; I expect to wake up one morning in the near future to hear that boxes of ballots mysteriously appeared, and Al Franken is now a Senator.&nbsp; It would be a national disgrace to put that man in the Senate, but if the people of Minnesota cast enough votes for him to make it even close, they deserve whatever they get!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norm Coleman had a 700+ vote lead Thursday.&nbsp; That lead is now down to 236 votes.&nbsp; That&#8217;s interesting.&nbsp; Newsbusters&nbsp;has an article that points out that the people overseeing the recount are deeply involved with ACORN.&nbsp; The quote to keep in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=265\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}