{"id":4217,"date":"2008-03-04T12:17:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T19:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/04\/open-threadfor-ohio-texas-vermont-and-rhode-island-voters\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T12:17:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T19:37:27","slug":"open-threadfor-ohio-texas-vermont-and-rhode-island-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4217","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread..For Ohio, Texas, Vermont, and Rhode Island Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have been reading this blog for a while, you probably already know that I was raised in southern Ohio, and my friends and relatives are spread between northwestern and southeastern Ohio. I don’t know what happened after I moved away, but all the sudden Ohio is a political hotbed (LOL! I saw this article on Yahoo! right after I posted: Why is Ohio such a strong barometer of the country’s pulse?<\/a>)<\/span>. One of the infamous purple, swing states. Since I have a family full of Ohio swing voters and most of them are those coveted blue collar folks, they are every politician’s “friend” these days. My mom says that she and my Dad get called constantly this time of year, and Bill Clinton even came to my hometown last week. In the meanwhile I’ve been living in New York and Connecticut, which are about as Democratic as you can get, so I don’t get to see the crazy political ads or rallies that they get.<\/p>\n

So…can somebody who’s actually on the ground in Ohio or Texas (or Rhode Island or Vermont for that matter) tell me what’s going on? Are the polls busy? Is the weather causing problems? My Mom and Dad went to vote at 7AM this morning, and my Mom said it was surprisingly empty. I’m curious what are other folks seeing? I know y’all Ohio and Texas people are out there; what’s going on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have been reading this blog for a while, you probably already know that I was raised in southern Ohio, and my friends and relatives are spread between northwestern and southeastern Ohio. I don’t know what happened after I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}