{"id":5776,"date":"2013-01-24T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5776"},"modified":"2013-01-24T08:47:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T14:47:05","slug":"how-republicans-plan-to-rig-the-next-presidential-election-in-six-pictures-thinkprogress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/how-republicans-plan-to-rig-the-next-presidential-election-in-six-pictures-thinkprogress\/","title":{"rendered":"How Republicans Plan To Rig The Next Presidential Election, In Six Pictures | ThinkProgress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2013\/01\/24\/1488491\/how-the-republicans-plan-to-rig-the-next-presidential-race-in-six-pictures\/?mobile=nc\">How Republicans Plan To Rig The Next Presidential Election, In Six Pictures | ThinkProgress<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Under the Republican Plan, most electoral votes will be allocated to the winner of individual Congressional districts, rather than to the winner of the state as a whole. Because the Republican Plan would be implemented in states that are heavily gerrymandered to favor Republicans, the resulting maps would all but guarantee that the Republican would win a majority of each state\u2019s electoral votes, even if the Democratic candidate wins the state as a whole.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Screen-shot-2013-01-24-at-9.10.37-AM.png\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2013\/01\/24\/1488491\/how-the-republicans-plan-to-rig-the-next-presidential-race-in-six-pictures\/?mobile=nc\">How Republicans Plan To Rig The Next Presidential Election, In Six Pictures | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Republicans Plan To Rig The Next Presidential Election, In Six Pictures | ThinkProgress Under the Republican Plan, most electoral votes will be allocated to the winner of individual Congressional districts, rather than to the winner of the state as a whole. Because the Republican Plan would be implemented in states that are heavily gerrymandered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/how-republicans-plan-to-rig-the-next-presidential-election-in-six-pictures-thinkprogress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Republicans Plan To Rig The Next Presidential Election, In Six Pictures | ThinkProgress<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5777,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions\/5777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}