{"id":2927,"date":"2020-10-26T23:01:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T23:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2020-10-26T23:02:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T23:02:20","slug":"electoral-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2927","title":{"rendered":"Is your vote count?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight days to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2902\">2020 presidential election<\/a>. You may want to know if\u00a0your vote count.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is NO.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NY Times: Many people, including some Americans, are under the assumption that citizens\u2019 votes alone determine the next president. They do not. That responsibility falls to the <em>Electoral College<\/em>: When Americans cast their ballots, they are actually voting for a slate of electors chosen by their state\u2019s political parties who are pledged to support that party\u2019s candidate. (They don\u2019t always do so.)<br \/>\nA total of 538 electoral votes are in play across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. It takes 270 electoral votes to win.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight days to 2020 presidential election. You may want to know if\u00a0your vote count. The answer is NO. NY Times: Many people, including some Americans,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2927\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is your vote count?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politically-correct-","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}