{"id":541,"date":"2004-09-15T00:24:32","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T00:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2004-09-15T00:24:32","modified_gmt":"2004-09-15T00:24:32","slug":"09142004_primar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"09\/14\/2004 Primary Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dane County has a useful site with results from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.dane.wi.us\/coclerk\/elect2004c.html\">yesterday&#8217;s primary here<\/a>.<br \/>\nIn an election related article, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/0,,SB109503410789515921-email,00.html\">John Harwood discusses<\/a> Colorado&#8217;s  ballot initiative that would split the state&#8217;s electoral votes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>hile Colorado leans toward the Republicans, Democrats are hoping to grab some of the state&#8217;s nine electoral votes anyway, in a tactical strike that could lead to broader changes in America&#8217;s system of picking presidents.<br \/>\nRick Ridder, a Denver-based political consultant who once managed Howard Dean&#8217;s campaign for the 2004 Democratic nomination, is pushing an initiative to amend the state&#8217;s constitution in the November general election and scrap the winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes practiced by 48 states. Instead, the state&#8217;s votes would be divided in proportion to the popular vote, which would almost certainly assure Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry of at least four of them (See related article).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dane County has a useful site with results from yesterday&#8217;s primary here. In an election related article, John Harwood discusses Colorado&#8217;s ballot initiative that would split the state&#8217;s electoral votes: hile Colorado leans toward the Republicans, Democrats are hoping to grab some of the state&#8217;s nine electoral votes anyway, in a tactical strike that could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}