{"id":5085,"date":"2004-02-18T11:34:36","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T19:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/18\/5085\/"},"modified":"2004-02-18T11:34:36","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T19:34:36","slug":"cnn-how-does-the-primary-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5085","title":{"rendered":"CNN: How does the primary work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click on your state to see how your primary works.  California&#8217;s seems especially pointless:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Modified closed primary<\/b><\/p>\n<p \/>\nAfter a 2000 U.S. Supreme Court ruling declared the state&#8217;s open primary system<br \/>\nunconstitutional, California set up a &#8220;modified&#8221; closed primary. A voter can mar<br \/>\nk any party&#8217;s primary ballot, but only votes cast by registered party members co<br \/>\nunt toward the official tally.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Web link of note: <a HREF='http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/ELECTION\/2004\/special\/president\/primary.explainer\/frameset.ex\nclude.html'>CNN: How does the primary work?<\/a><br \/>\n(At http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/ELECTION\/2004\/special\/president\/primary.explainer\/frameset.ex<br \/>\nclude.html)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on your state to see how your primary works. California&#8217;s seems especially pointless: Modified closed primary After a 2000 U.S. Supreme Court ruling declared the state&#8217;s open primary system unconstitutional, California set up a &#8220;modified&#8221; closed primary. A voter can mar k any party&#8217;s primary ballot, but only votes cast by registered party members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}