{"id":159,"date":"2007-12-05T16:18:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T21:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:02:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T22:02:06","slug":"quote-of-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"It is not enough to have every intelligent person in the country voting for me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2parse.com\/\/images\/adlai.jpg?resize=452%2C600\" alt=\"Adlai Stevenson campaign poster\" height=\"600\" width=\"452\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>[digg-reddit-me] <font size=\"3\">It is not enough to have every intelligent person in the country voting for me.  I need a majority.<\/font><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps that quote helps explain why <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adlai_Stevenson\">Adlai Stevenson<\/a> lost two presidential races.<br \/>\nEither because:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>His casual arrogance alienated many people; or<\/li>\n<li>People were too stupid to vote for him.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Either way, it&#8217;s a quote that has some bearing on how this coming election will turn out, as many people question whether a majority of the country, having voted for Bush, is capable to making an intelligent decision about who should clean up Bush&#8217;s numerous messes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/\/?p=158\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link: Hillary v. Barack, Third Grade Edition\">Hillary v. Barack, Third Grade Edition<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/\/?p=137\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to A Defense of Compromise and the American Experiment\">A Defense of Compromise and the American Experiment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/\/?p=135\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to Experience : Judgment :: Clinton : Obama (or Paul or Kucinich)\">Experience : Judgment :: Clinton : Obama (or Paul or Kucinich)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/\/?p=120\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link: \u201cThe fierce urgency of now\u201d and Barack Obama\">\u201cThe fierce urgency of now\u201d and Barack Obama<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/\/?p=157\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to Giuliani: There is something deranged about you\u2026\">Giuliani: There is something deranged about you\u2026<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me] It is not enough to have every intelligent person in the country voting for me. I need a majority. Perhaps that quote helps explain why Adlai Stevenson lost two presidential races. Either because: His casual arrogance alienated many people; or People were too stupid to vote for him. Either way, it&#8217;s a quote that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-history","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-2z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}