{"id":7319,"date":"2015-10-18T22:30:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T02:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2019-10-22T15:41:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T19:41:02","slug":"three-simple-truths-for-voting-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=7319","title":{"rendered":"3 simple truths for voting day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/000ab2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"000ab\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/000ab2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/000ab2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/000ab2-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/000ab2-450x338.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>1. National polls do not reflect voting results. An election is not a horse race. Vote for the person, not with an eye to the latest polls but with a mind to the type of country you want to live in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2. The nature of politics is dirty and it is a greasy pole that politicians climb. Good people get into politics and begin the climb. Know that under the grease they are still good people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3. We live in a great country. It is great because we all care and take actions to make it so. Voting is part of that caring. Go vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8211; Chris George<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(ed. &#8211; This is from the By George Special Election Edition:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/myemail.constantcontact.com\/The-Campaign-Wrap---By-George-.html?soid=1105585715816&amp;aid=HwkQl7dHVEs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Campaign Wrap<\/a><em>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. National polls do not reflect voting results. An election is not a horse race. Vote for the person, not with an eye to the latest polls but with a mind to the type of country you want to live in. &nbsp; 2. The nature of politics is dirty and it is a greasy pole&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10741,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions\/10741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}