{"id":57619,"date":"2024-10-06T19:36:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T19:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57619"},"modified":"2024-10-06T20:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T20:22:56","slug":"whether-to-vote-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57619","title":{"rendered":"Whether to vote early"},"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 am in the midst of an intense internal struggle between what I normally do during election season and what I am tempted to do for this one.<\/p>\n<p>Do I vote early or do I wait until Election Day?<\/p>\n<p>Readers of this blog know what I have said previously about early voting vs. waiting until Election Day to cast my ballot.\u00a0 I have sought to avoid the unwelcome surprise that can occur between the day I vote early and Election Day voting. My candidate might mess up mightily, you know?<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing on Earth that Donald Trump can do to win my vote. I have declared him unfit for public since long before scored that fluky win in 2016. I do not anticipate Kamala Harris doing anything to make me regret voting for her.<\/p>\n<p>What about down-ballot races? I detest the Cruz Missile, the US senator named Ted Cruz. I also deeply admire US Rep. Colin Allred, who is challenging Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>Do I sound like I am talking myself into voting early? Possibly.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to wait a while longer before I decide.\u00a0 This election will be safe and corruption free. The question for me is whether I want to know whether I am part of the trend when the polls close on Nov. 5, or whether I am swimming against the tide.<\/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 am in the midst of an intense internal struggle between what I normally do during election season and what I am tempted to do for this one. Do I vote early or do I wait until Election Day? Readers of this blog know what I have said previously about early voting vs. waiting until &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57619\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whether to vote early<\/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":[14],"tags":[10182,1496,8357,7419],"class_list":["post-57619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-colin-allred","tag-early-voting","tag-kamala-harris","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57619","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=57619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57620,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57619\/revisions\/57620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}