{"id":41265,"date":"2018-11-01T15:08:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T19:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=41265"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:08:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T19:08:25","slug":"video-get-out-and-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/video-get-out-and-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Get Out and Vote!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday, November 6, is Election Day!<\/p>\n<p>In this video, I explain why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>every vote really does matter;<\/li>\n<li>you should vote even if you don&#8217;t 100% LOVE your choices;<\/li>\n<li>this is the wrong election to complain that &#8220;they&#8217;re all the same&#8221; because they&#8217;re not;<\/li>\n<li>when you don&#8217;t vote, the people who benefit the most are the ones you DISLIKE the most.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your concern is that you don&#8217;t know enough about who is running, you can spend a few minutes on research.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, find your ballot at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vote411.org\/ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vote411.org<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockthevote.org\/voting-information\/voter-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock the Vote<\/a> and read up on candidates and issues.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isidewith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take the kinda fun quiz at ISideWith to find out which candidates align with your beliefs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>For judicial candidates, check your local <a href=\"https:\/\/generalbar.com\/State.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bar association<\/a> sites. They determine whether a judge should be retained or is qualified to be elected. (Thanks for this tip, Helen.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now watch the video!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B6yUYdG8H-Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Got questions? I&#8217;ll do my best to answer them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday, November 6, is Election Day! In this video, I explain why: every vote really does matter; you should vote even if you don&#8217;t 100% LOVE your choices; this is the wrong election to complain that &#8220;they&#8217;re all the same&#8221; because they&#8217;re not; when you don&#8217;t vote, the people who benefit the most are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/video-get-out-and-vote\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[669,49,558,143,1291],"tags":[1487,947,945,1738,955,1719],"class_list":["post-41265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-about-wendy","category-in-the-news","category-news","category-politics","category-video-about-wendy","tag-blue-wave","tag-election-day","tag-get-out-the-vote","tag-midterms-2018","tag-vote","tag-vote-them-out","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41266,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41265\/revisions\/41266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}