{"id":18247,"date":"2016-10-31T15:44:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18247"},"modified":"2016-10-31T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:46:33","slug":"why-trump-stays-afloat-and-early-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18247","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump stay&#8217;s afloat and Early voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my buddy to me &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/30\/opinion\/campaign-stops\/why-trump-stays-afloat.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;clickSource=story-heading&#038;module=opinion-c-col-left-region&#038;region=opinion-c-col-left-region&#038;WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&#038;_r=1\">An anaylsis <\/a>of the voters by Sam Wang of the New York Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For now, we are stuck with an intensely emotional campaign that has been a significant source of stress for more than half of adults. The American Psychological Association has, for the first time, issued tips on dealing with election-related stress. Strong emotional experience reduces mental flexibility, suggesting that when tempers run high, as they have for many voters this season, entrenched support for a party or candidate is more likely. So if you wonder whether there is anyone left to persuade, the answer is probably no. We\u2019re too freaked out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And from another friend there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2016\/10\/28\/mn-early-voting-ballot-where-to-vote-early\/\">this story<\/a> about early voting in Minnesota. I&#8217;m one of them. I&#8217;ll be in Kansas on election day.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than a quarter of a million people have already voted in Minnesota and the record-breaking numbers are expected to surge as Election Day approaches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t vote to be done with the election. I figure there is no escape from it although my sister in Equador doesn&#8217;t have to listen to television commercials. That doesn&#8217;t stop her from sending videos about the outrages of Donald Trump to Facebook so even south of the equator there&#8217;s no escape from our election. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my buddy to me &#8211; An anaylsis of the voters by Sam Wang of the New York Times: For now, we are stuck&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18250,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions\/18250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}