{"id":297,"date":"2008-11-19T04:50:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T04:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2008-11-19T04:50:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T04:50:01","slug":"the_value_of_an_informed_elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"The Value of an Informed Electorate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Zogby polling service took a poll after the election of people who had voted for Obama to gauge their knowledge of the issues.&nbsp; Some of the results are listed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/022095.php\">Power Line Blog<\/a>.&nbsp; In reading the results, you can see how the media played a role in this election.&nbsp; You can also see how the &#8216;celebrity gossip&#8217; culture played a role.&nbsp; There was one remark which the people polled credited to Sarah Palin&nbsp;that was actually made by Tina Fey.&nbsp; We need to educate our voters (97 percent of these people were high school graduates and 55 percent were college graduates).&nbsp; We need to work on our education system to teach people how to pay attention to what is going on around them&#8211;other than celebrity gossip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zogby polling service took a poll after the election of people who had voted for Obama to gauge their knowledge of the issues.&nbsp; Some of the results are listed at Power Line Blog.&nbsp; In reading the results, you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=297\">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-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}