{"id":1306,"date":"2008-10-28T08:32:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T13:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2008-10-28T08:16:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T13:16:54","slug":"the-world-is-blowing-up-we-cant-be-one-issue-voters-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1306","title":{"rendered":"The World Is Blowing Up. We Can&#8217;t Be One-Issue Voters Today."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Hagel, a Republican, is quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/11\/03\/081103fa_fact_bruck?currentPage=all\">the most recent <em>New Yorker<\/em> in a piece by Connie Bruck<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was a political party in this country called the Know-Nothings. And we\u2019re getting on the fringe of that, <strong>with these one-issue voters\u2014pro-choice or pro-life. Important issue, I know that. But, my goodness. The world is blowing up everywhere, and I just don\u2019t think that is a responsible way to see the world, on that one issue<\/strong>. And, interestingly enough, that is one issue that stopped John McCain from picking one of the people he really wanted, Joe Lieberman or Tom Ridge. [my emphasis]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Hagel, a Republican, is quoted in the most recent New Yorker in a piece by Connie Bruck: There was a political party in this country called the Know-Nothings. And we\u2019re getting on the fringe of that, with these one-issue voters\u2014pro-choice or pro-life. Important issue, I know that. But, my goodness. The world is blowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,45,8,367,6,4],"tags":[650,431,910,187],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-mccain","category-morality","category-national-security","category-obama","category-politics","tag-abortion","tag-chuck-hagel","tag-connie-bruck","tag-new-yorker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-l4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}