{"id":852,"date":"2012-10-26T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/26\/dont-pre-empt-gaffes"},"modified":"2012-10-26T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T12:38:00","slug":"dont-pre-empt-gaffes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t pre-empt gaffes"},"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><a title=\"http:\/\/amarillo.com\/opinion\/opinion-columnist\/weekly-opinion-columnist\/2012-10-25\/goldberg-early-voting-pre-empts-last\" href=\"http:\/\/amarillo.com\/opinion\/opinion-columnist\/weekly-opinion-columnist\/2012-10-25\/goldberg-early-voting-pre-empts-last\">http:\/\/amarillo.com\/opinion\/opinion-columnist\/weekly-opinion-columnist\/2012-10-25\/goldberg-early-voting-pre-empts-last<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jonah Goldberg is a pretty sharp, young conservative columnist \u2013 with whom I have little in common, ideologywise.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s right about the dangers of early voting, a subject I\u2019ve explored already on this blog. His point essentially is that early voting pre-empts any gaffes a candidate might make on his\/her way to Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s precisely why I prefer to wait until the final day to cast my vote.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t expect my presidential candidate to make a serious verbal mistake between now and Nov. 6. The other guy might, which only would serve to shore up my confidence in the selection I\u2019m going to make at the polling place.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has done a good job of making early voting easy and accessible for those who just cannot wait. Randall and Potter county residents have several locations available to them to cast their votes early. <\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m a stickler for tradition. I\u2019ll just bide my time for next 12 days and watch this drama play out.<\/p>\n<p>Then I\u2019ll vote \u2026 on Election Day \u2026 which is Nov. 6. See you then.<\/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>http:\/\/amarillo.com\/opinion\/opinion-columnist\/weekly-opinion-columnist\/2012-10-25\/goldberg-early-voting-pre-empts-last Jonah Goldberg is a pretty sharp, young conservative columnist \u2013 with whom I have little in common, ideologywise. But he\u2019s right about the dangers of early voting, a subject I\u2019ve explored already on this blog. His point essentially is that early voting pre-empts any gaffes a candidate might make on his\/her way to Election &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=852\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don\u2019t pre-empt gaffes<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}