{"id":976,"date":"2004-11-20T12:35:07","date_gmt":"2004-11-20T16:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=976"},"modified":"2004-11-20T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2004-11-20T16:35:07","slug":"the-mind-of-a-bush-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"The Mind of a Bush Voter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/articles\/04\/11\/19_bush.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/MindofaBushVoter.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>It was the clever graphic at left that first caught my eye. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/articles\/04\/11\/19_bush.html\" target=\"_blank\">the article which accompanied it<\/a> by Jason Bradfield, a once-conservative activist who came to his senses and is now working towards progressive pragmatism in D.C., explains what might have been going through a Bush voters head in 2004 &#8212; from the perspective of someone who had voted for Bush in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>He analyzes the way which progressives may be able to speak to the &#8220;hyper-individualistic &#8216;me-first&#8217; worldview&#8221; of so many of those voters in the future.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fairly heady but extremely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/articles\/04\/11\/19_bush.html\" target=\"_blank\">articulate analysis<\/a> as is Bradfield&#8217;s own blog <a href=\"http:\/\/jaybradfield.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Random Thoughts of an Ex-Conservative&#8221;<\/a>. Both are well worth the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the clever graphic at left that first caught my eye. But the article which accompanied it by Jason Bradfield, a once-conservative activist who came to his senses and is now working towards progressive pragmatism in D.C., explains what might have been going through a Bush voters head in 2004 &#8212; from the perspective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}