{"id":53658,"date":"2024-02-05T12:47:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53658"},"modified":"2024-02-05T12:47:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:47:58","slug":"the-number-the-mainstream-media-is-somehow-overlooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53658","title":{"rendered":"The Number The Mainstream Media Is Somehow Overlooking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 5th, <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/smoosieq\/2024\/02\/05\/if-an-incumbent-gets-96-percent-of-the-vote-in-a-primary-with-4-percent-turnout-does-it-make-a-sound-n2169627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red State<\/a> posted an article that provides a whole new perspective on the Democrat South Carolina primary election. The mainstream media reported that President Biden won 96 per cent of the vote. That&#8217;s logical considering the efforts the Democrats have made to keep other people out of the primary. However, there is another number that the mainstream media forgot to report.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>To his credit, Biden did notch a resounding win in the Palmetto State. He\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/smoosieq\/2024\/02\/03\/live-south-carolina-democratic-primary-results-n2169595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">garnered 96 percent of the vote<\/a>, leaving Marianne Williamson and Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) in low-low single digits. Funny thing is, only about 131,000 people cast votes in the primary \u2014 out of over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/independentvoterproject.org\/voter-stats\/sc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3.4 million registered voters<\/a>. Meaning less than four percent of the state&#8217;s registered voters bothered to participate in Saturday&#8217;s primary \u2014 and less than nine percent of the registered Democrats.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Even taking into account Biden was the prohibitive favorite, that&#8217;s a decidedly unenthusiastic electorate. Which prompts one to ask: If an incumbent president gets 96 percent of the vote with only four percent turnout, does it make a sound?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lack of participation should cause Democrats to lose sleep at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 5th, Red State posted an article that provides a whole new perspective on the Democrat South Carolina primary election. The mainstream media reported that President Biden won 96 per cent of the vote. That&#8217;s logical considering the efforts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53658\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[853,13372,7408,13062,1498,10663,9786],"class_list":["post-53658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democrats","tag-president-biden","tag-primary-election","tag-red-state","tag-redstate","tag-registered-voters","tag-south-carolina-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53658","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53659,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53658\/revisions\/53659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}