{"id":30795,"date":"2020-10-07T14:10:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T19:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30795"},"modified":"2020-10-07T14:10:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T19:10:48","slug":"big-old-sign-stop-and-consider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/07\/big-old-sign-stop-and-consider\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Old Sign: &#8216;Stop and Consider&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>13WOWK<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowktv.com\/news\/elections\/poll-shows-incumbents-leading-races-for-surveyed-wv-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a> on a West Virginia political poll:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the race for U.S. president, President Donald Trump (R) holds a 56% to 38% lead over Democratic nominee Joe Biden, according to the poll. 4.8% said they were still unsure of which candidate they would be voting for on Election Day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Impressive, yeah? West Virginia voters aren&#8217;t paying attention, yeah?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_West_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According<\/a> to <em><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em>, Trump beat Clinton by <strong>42 points<\/strong> in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>And I want to know is if that 56% in the poll realize that a substantial portion of their former political colleagues have switched their party allegiance, and if they wonder if perhaps there&#8217;s something they&#8217;re missing in the current political climate.<\/p>\n<p>Does self-doubt gnaw at them?<\/p>\n<p>Or do they just merrily march on, certain that Trump is the way to go?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to guess the epistemic bubble echos the phrase <em>You&#8217;re right!<\/em> to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13WOWK reports on a West Virginia political poll: In the race for U.S. president, President Donald Trump (R) holds a 56% to 38% lead over Democratic nominee Joe Biden, according to the poll. 4.8% said they were still unsure of which candidate they would be voting for on Election Day. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/07\/big-old-sign-stop-and-consider\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30796,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30795\/revisions\/30796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}