{"id":11508,"date":"2010-04-12T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T22:00:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-12T22:00:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T22:00:58","slug":"tactical-voting-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/12\/tactical-voting-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Tactical Voting Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I vote by mail, and am &#8220;decline to state,&#8221; so I recently received a request from the county elections office if I wanted to specify a political party ballot for the upcoming primary. &nbsp;With no real race for the Democratic nomination for governor, and with an incumbent senator, I was considering asking for the Republican ballot to vote for the most beatable candidates.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;ve not voted for a Republican at any level since I voted for Millicent Fenwick in 1980&#8230; &nbsp;So it would be a strange feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Have any of you voted tactically like this? &nbsp;Are any of you considering it for this primary?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I vote by mail, and am &#8220;decline to state,&#8221; so I recently received a request from the county elections office if I wanted to specify a political party ballot for the upcoming primary. &nbsp;With no real race for the Democratic nomination for governor, and with an incumbent senator, I was considering asking for the Republican ballot to vote for the most beatable candidates.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;ve not voted for a Republican at any level since I voted for Millicent Fenwick in 1980&#8230; &nbsp;So it would be a strange feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Have any of you voted tactically like this? &nbsp;Are any of you considering it for this primary?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2826,"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":[],"tags":[4019,8684],"class_list":["post-11508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-4019","tag-8684"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2ZC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}