{"id":49159,"date":"2016-03-14T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=49159"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:34:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:34:03","slug":"how-closed-primary-elections-can-impact-the-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2016\/03\/14\/how-closed-primary-elections-can-impact-the-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"How Closed Primary Elections Can Impact The Presidential Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601502.us.archive.org\/23\/items\/20160314Uprising\/2016_03_14_Chad_Peace.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601502.us.archive.org\/23\/items\/20160314Uprising\/2016_03_14_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Chad Peace<\/strong>, President of Independent Voter Media.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Gallup, more than a third of all eligible voters in the US are not affiliated with either the Democratic or the Republican Party. While they can also choose who they want as President in a general election, voting in primaries becomes more complicated. Depending upon the state you live in, independent, or \u201cdecline-to-state\u201d voters may or may not be allowed to vote for a candidate they like if that candidate is running with a major party. <\/p>\n<p>The case of Bernie Sanders is especially telling. The Democratic-leaning Senator spent most of his career identifying as an independent and is now running as a Democrat and attracting plenty of independent progressives. But can they all vote for him? Similarly, there may be some independent voters who back Hillary Clinton simply because they yearn for a woman in the White House. <\/p>\n<p>For more information visit <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentvoterproject.org\" target=\"_blank\">independentvoterproject.org<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR CALIFORNIA VOTERS<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p>Check the status of your voter registration <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/elections\/registration-status\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/em>. http:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/elections\/registration-status\/<\/p>\n<p>If you are not registered, click <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/elections\/voter-registration\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/em> to register to vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Chad Peace, President of Independent Voter Media. According to Gallup, more than a third of all eligible voters in the US are not affiliated with either the Democratic or the Republican Party. While they can also choose who they want as President in a general election, voting in primaries becomes more complicated. Depending upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49161,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49159\/revisions\/49161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}