{"id":4682,"date":"2012-11-06T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/?p=4682"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:30:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T15:30:48","slug":"top-ten-positives-about-election-day-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/top-ten-positives-about-election-day-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Positives About Election Day, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1193557_america_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4683\" title=\"Election Day 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1193557_america_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1193557_america_.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1193557_america_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Election Day 2012 is here much to my <del>relief<\/del> delight. As a citizen of one of this year&#8217;s swing states, it didn&#8217;t take too much thinking to come up with a list of the top ten positives associated with the long-awaited end to election season.<\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0 No more robo-calls for Hiram and me from candidates, their spouses, immediate family, extended family, political cohorts, good friends, acquaintances, and pets.<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0\u00a0 No more surveys for Hiram and me of the automated or real-person-on-the-other-end-of-the-line variety.<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0\u00a0 No more robo-calls or surveys for our son who hasn&#8217;t lived in this state since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0 No more robo-calls or surveys for our daughter who hasn&#8217;t lived at our house since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0 No more robo-calls for Jayme, whoever she is, who never lived at our house though the Democratic Party is sure she did.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 We can watch television again without hearing the same political ads over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 No more watching television and feeling like a teacher trying to break up fights between two popular kids who keep calling each other names.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 In a few more days, news reporters will talk about something other than the election or Frankenstorms powerful enough to push the candidates off the front page for a few days.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 The sense of equality that comes from standing in the voting line with fellow citizens in our voting precinct. One person, one vote, regardless of gender, color, creed, class, or earning power.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 When we vote, whoever wins, we&#8217;ve participated in the making of history.<\/p>\n<p>What positives get you excited this election day? Leave a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Day 2012 is here much to my relief delight. 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