{"id":514,"date":"2010-01-19T20:24:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T03:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2010-01-19T20:24:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T03:24:51","slug":"the-power-of-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"The Power of the Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ballotbox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"ballotbox\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ballotbox\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ballotbox_thumb.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a> Whatever your political persuasion, I believe you must acknowledge that today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/01\/19\/massachusetts.senate\/index.html?hpt=T1\" target=\"_blank\">special election<\/a> in Massachusetts illustrates that a citizen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personal vote still holds sway in American politics.&#160; A fairly small percentage of the electorate in one small state has effected, perhaps profoundly, the balance of power in Congress, and has signaled a substantial change in momentum for a movement considered by many to be unstoppable but a short year ago.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it is the will of the&#160; American people, not that of career politicians, that will lead this great country forward.<\/p>\n<p>May we all remember this example and exercise our freedom to vote whenever we get the chance.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:cb81d3f3-43a5-477a-8c6e-639d5d93a794\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Del.icio.us Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Freedom\" rel=\"tag\">Freedom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Vote\" rel=\"tag\">Vote<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever your political persuasion, I believe you must acknowledge that today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s special election in Massachusetts illustrates that a citizen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personal vote still holds sway in American politics.&#160; A fairly small percentage of the electorate in one small state has effected, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=514\">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":[3],"tags":[28,114],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-article","tag-freedom","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}