{"id":530,"date":"2011-10-04T04:46:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T08:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=530"},"modified":"2011-10-04T04:53:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T08:53:29","slug":"restrictions-could-keep-five-million-traditionally-democratic-voters-from-the-polls-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/restrictions-could-keep-five-million-traditionally-democratic-voters-from-the-polls-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Restrictions Could Keep Five Million Traditionally Democratic Voters From The Polls In 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictive voting laws in states across the country could affect up to five million voters from traditionally Democratic demographics in 2012, according to a new report by the Brennan Center. That&#8217;s a number larger than the margin of victory in two of the last three presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>The new restrictions, the study found, &#8220;fall most heavily on young, minority, and low-income voters, as well as on voters with disabilities. This wave of changes may sharply tilt the political terrain for the 2012 election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/10\/restrictions_could_keep_five_million_traditionally_democratic_voters_from_the_polls_in_2012.php\">Restrictions Could Keep Five Million Traditionally Democratic Voters From The Polls In 2012 | TPMMuckraker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictive voting laws in states across the country could affect up to five million voters from traditionally Democratic demographics in 2012, according to a new report by the Brennan Center. That&#8217;s a number larger than the margin of victory in two of the last three presidential elections. The new restrictions, the study found, &#8220;fall most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22,7],"tags":[26,318,247,317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"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=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}