{"id":1368,"date":"2012-10-30T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2012-10-30T21:23:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T01:23:39","slug":"michigan-voter-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Voter Thoughts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLMG039.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1369\" title=\"Michigan Voter Thoughts...\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLMG039.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLMG039.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLMG039-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2012\/10\/MLMG039.jpg&amp;name=Michigan Voter Thoughts...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>October 28, 2012<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yeah, I don\u2019t know. I had higher hopes for this cartoon. There were two thoughts that amused me. The first was about the proposals. Here I am a Michigan editorial cartoonist who is supposed to know stuff about this stuff, and I have a hard time remembering which one is which. (This is, by the way, exactly the reason why ballot proposals amending the state constitution are a bad idea. Who can fully grasp the full intentions of these things, let alone the potential consequences?)<\/p>\n<p>The other thing that struck me funny was the idea of voters with this vague notion of Pete Hoekstra &#8212; sort of like, \u201cit must be time to vote because there\u2019s that Pete Hoekstra guy again and he seems to be running for something.\u201d I could try to explain to you why I think that\u2019s funny, but then it wouldn\u2019t be funny.<\/p>\n<p>After that, I was just casting about for additional thoughts. The obvious one last Thursday when I was drawing this was that Michiganders would be totally pre-occupied with the Tigers and the World Series. But by the time the cartoon hit the newspapers Sunday, the Tigers were swept. *Sigh* Maybe that\u2019s why I don\u2019t have any particular enthusiasm for the cartoon anymore. Summer is now totally over and we only have elections to look forward to&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News October 28, 2012 Yeah, I don\u2019t know. I had higher hopes for this cartoon. There were two thoughts that amused me. The first was about the proposals. Here I am a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}