{"id":2740,"date":"2012-10-02T10:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T14:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2012-10-02T10:01:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T14:01:47","slug":"early-voting-starts-today-as-do-the-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/10\/early-voting-starts-today-as-do-the-rallies\/","title":{"rendered":"Early voting starts today, as do the rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of nonstop campaigning and TV commercials, the election of 2012 begins to count at the ballot box today.<\/p>\n<p>Early in-person voting begins in each of Ohio\u2019s 88 counties at 8 a.m. while the first of more than 922,000 absentee ballots will begin to be mailed today by county boards of elections.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats marked early voting with a \u201cSleep Out the Vote\u201d event at which people were urged to camp out overnight ahead of today\u2019s opening of the Franklin County voting site at the former Kohl\u2019s store at 1700 Morse Rd. on the North Side.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans planned a 7:30 a.m. early-voting rally at the Romney office at 1135 Dublin Rd. in Grandview Heights.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign also is launching a \u201cCommit to Mitt Early Vote Express\u201d statewide bus tour.And a 30-city tour by Voters First Ohio \u2014 seeking to revamp the way Ohio draws congressional- and legislative-district boundaries \u2014 starts at the old Kohl\u2019s at 9 this morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/local\/2012\/10\/02\/early-voting-starts-today-as-do-the-rallies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Early voting starts today, as do the rallies | The Columbus Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of nonstop campaigning and TV commercials, the election of 2012 begins to count at the ballot box today. Early in-person voting begins in each of Ohio\u2019s 88 counties at 8 a.m. while the first of more than 922,000 absentee ballots will begin to be mailed today by county boards of elections. Democrats marked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[1553,1357,584,1554],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}