{"id":100,"date":"2004-03-02T08:11:44","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T12:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/03\/02\/throwing-away-my-primary-vote\/"},"modified":"2011-06-18T23:30:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T03:30:18","slug":"throwing-away-my-primary-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/03\/throwing-away-my-primary-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing away my primary vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a39'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spent the week wondering: should I throw away my Democratic primary vote? The choice: between Edwards and Dean.<\/p>\n<p>It makes no sense to vote for Kerry if you don&#8217;t agree with (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2004\/03\/02\/aides_nurture_kerrys_appeal\/\">don&#8217;t know<\/a>) what he stands for, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">especially <\/span>if<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s a shoo-in. If the primaries end tonight, Kerry will revert to<br \/>\nsomnambulism, or worse, he&#8217;ll start stealing lines and ideas not from<br \/>\nDean and Edwards but from Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards is, right now, still a viable candidate. Dean has an<br \/>\ninfluential grassroots organization and the right stand on the issues.<br \/>\nI decided to go with my beliefs and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anderkoo.com\/photos_primaries?wid=152&amp;func=viewSubmission&amp;sid=36\">voted for Dean<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the week wondering: should I throw away my Democratic primary vote? The choice: between Edwards and Dean. It makes no sense to vote for Kerry if you don&#8217;t agree with (or don&#8217;t know) what he stands for, especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/03\/throwing-away-my-primary-vote\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44935],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts-boston-cambridge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}