{"id":293,"date":"2008-05-15T03:47:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T08:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/293"},"modified":"2008-05-15T03:47:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T08:47:40","slug":"voting-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/293","title":{"rendered":"Voting Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was talking with my brother, who lives in NYC, and we were comparing <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/215\">pope-visit stories<\/a> (his attempts to get around the city were screwed up on consecutive days).  I mentioned how we had gotten a road repaving out of the visit to DC, and how we seemed to get the for presidential funerals, too, and how this could color my voting strategy.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve gotten a day off for presidential funerals, so in order to maximize this effect, I need to embiggen both the number and age of ex-presidents as much as possible.  So I must always vote against the incumbent, or, when there is no incumbent, vote for the older candidate.  McCain&#8217;s the clear choice under this paradigm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was talking with my brother, who lives in NYC, and we were comparing pope-visit stories (his attempts to get around the city were screwed up on consecutive days). I mentioned how we had gotten a road &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/293\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}