{"id":1713,"date":"2010-01-16T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T16:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2010-01-16T10:28:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T16:28:01","slug":"voting-democrat-is-bad-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/16\/voting-democrat-is-bad-for-you\/just-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Democrat Is Bad For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve known for a long time that voting Democrat is a bad idea for the country, but didn&#8217;t realize that doing so would have a negative impact on health, but now there&#8217;s a study to prove it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2010\/01\/voting_democrat_causes_cancer.html\">Voting Democrat Causes Cancer.<\/a> In this first map, red indicates an area with high cancer rates and blue indicates low ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Hoven_electoral_cancer_1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Hoven_electoral_cancer_1-400x312.gif\" alt=\"Hoven_electoral_cancer_1\" title=\"Hoven_electoral_cancer_1\" width=\"400\" height=\"312\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1714\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The distribution on that map looks a bit familiar, kinda like&#8230; This one that shows counties that voted Democrat in blue and Republican in red in the 2008 election. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/countymapnonlinr1024.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/countymapnonlinr1024-400x244.png\" alt=\"countymapnonlinr1024\" title=\"countymapnonlinr1024\" width=\"400\" height=\"244\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1715\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very similar distribution. There&#8217;s got to be some causality there. Right?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><em>No, the correlation displayed here and in the linked article shouldn&#8217;t be taken too seriously. Nor should other obviously biased studies that attempt to make ridiculous connections. Unfortunately, people believe them anyway.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve known for a long time that voting Democrat is a bad idea for the country, but didn&#8217;t realize that doing so would have a negative impact on health, but now there&#8217;s a study to prove it: Voting Democrat Causes Cancer. In this first map, red indicates an area with high cancer rates and blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,38,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-stuff","category-music","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}