{"id":658014,"date":"2010-02-08T14:05:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76064"},"modified":"2010-02-08T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:05:36","slug":"dana-milbank-republican-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/658014","title":{"rendered":"Dana Milbank, Republican Voter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting revelation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/discussion\/2010\/02\/05\/DI2010020502649.html\">from an online reader chat<\/a> with The Washington Post&#8217;s &#8220;Washington Sketch&#8221; columnist.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My policy in each presidential race is to vote for the best candidate who is not on the ballot&#8230; so I voted for McCain in 2000, when Bush and Gore were on the ballot. I voted for Chuck Hagel in 2004, when Bush and Kerry were on the ballot. And I voted for Mike Bloomberg in 2008.<span id=\"more-76064\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s really a pretty representative list of candidates who became darlings of the D.C. media establishment. (For the record, I voted for Ron Paul in the 2008 presidential primary and the Obama-Biden ticket in the general election.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting revelation from an online reader chat with The Washington Post&#8217;s &#8220;Washington Sketch&#8221; columnist. My policy in each presidential race is to vote for the best candidate who is not on the ballot&#8230; so I voted for McCain in 2000, when Bush and Gore were on the ballot. I voted for Chuck Hagel in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Lb8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}