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Vote Ham Sandwich<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vote Ham Sandwich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-explicit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-ud","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":795,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/vote-everybody-out","url_meta":{"origin":1873,"position":0},"title":"Vote everybody out","author":"Gil","date":"January 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Wall Street Journal today: Why is it that whenever Congress gets into an ethics scrape, its first reaction is to further restrict the Constitutional rights of other Americans to influence Members of Congress?","rel":"","context":"In "Politics (explicit)"","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2343,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-deadliest-pick","url_meta":{"origin":1873,"position":1},"title":"The Deadliest Pick","author":"Gil","date":"August 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't venture into politics too often on this blog, but here's my prediction for the Sarah Palin effect: it backfires on McCain because women will actually want to vote against her the more their husbands point out how hot she is.","rel":"","context":"In "Politics (explicit)"","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13949,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-402-darryl-pinckney","url_meta":{"origin":1873,"position":2},"title":"Episode 402 – Darryl Pinckney","author":"Gil","date":"October 13, 2020","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 402: Darryl Pinckney \"The vote has to be rethought in our American hearts as a radical act, because so many people don't want you to vote. 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