{"id":4827,"date":"2008-09-20T19:50:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T03:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/20\/courting-the-undecided-voters\/"},"modified":"2008-09-20T19:50:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T03:09:51","slug":"courting-the-undecided-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4827","title":{"rendered":"Courting the Undecided Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;a factory worker in Cleveland, who works the third shift so she can take her son to school and then to practices for the four sports he plays. Pausing recently at a Walmart, she said, &#8220;Honestly, I don&#8217;t know what to do. I really don&#8217;t want to vote for McCain. You can tell he only cares about rich people. Sarah Palin wears glasses that cost $300. McCain&#8217;s wife wears Gucci clothes. Which means they don&#8217;t know anything about people like me.&#8221; Into that stew of assumptions, she adds, &#8220;I hear that Obama&#8217;s a Muslim. If he is a Muslim, that would be a problem because the terrorists already attacked us.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From &#8220;Maxed-Out Moms&#8221; by Karen Tumulty in Time Magazine, Sept 29 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a factory worker in Cleveland, who works the third shift so she can take her son to school and then to practices for the four sports he plays. Pausing recently at a Walmart, she said, &#8220;Honestly, I don&#8217;t know what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4827\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4827","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\/4827","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}