{"id":16793,"date":"2016-08-28T00:15:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T00:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16793"},"modified":"2016-08-28T00:15:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T00:15:24","slug":"minds-can-change-in-heated-political-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16793","title":{"rendered":"Minds can change in heated political climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m hearing a lot of pundits saying things about how locked in Americans are on the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Voters&#8217;\u00a0minds are made up.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re going to vote for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton or Republican Donald J. Trump. Perhaps they&#8217;ll vote for a minor-party candidate; we&#8217;ve got a few of them on the ballot this year.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing either of\u00a0the major-party nominees\u00a0can say is going to sway voters on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not so sure.<\/p>\n<p>I witnessed the changing of a mind nearly a year ago. It involved an Amarillo municipal referendum. I wrote about it. Take a look.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2015\/10\/a-mind-has-changed-on-the-mpev\/<\/p>\n<p>The above blog post, published in October 2015, also notes how one former Texas legislator, the late Teel Bivins, told me how another legislator, Carl Parker, could change minds during Texas Senate floor debate.<\/p>\n<p>Are our minds locked in on this election?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe. Maybe not.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hearing a lot of pundits saying things about how locked in Americans are on the presidential election. Voters&#8217;\u00a0minds are made up. They&#8217;re going to vote for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton or Republican Donald J. Trump. Perhaps they&#8217;ll vote for a minor-party candidate; we&#8217;ve got a few of them on the ballot this year. Nothing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16793\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minds can change in heated political climate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,14],"tags":[1424,2139,3153,4544],"class_list":["post-16793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-mpev","tag-teel-bivins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16794,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793\/revisions\/16794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}