{"id":29616,"date":"2016-01-23T12:56:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T16:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=29616"},"modified":"2016-01-23T13:18:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T17:18:38","slug":"election-options-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=29616","title":{"rendered":"Election Options For 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rohnert Park, CA<br \/>\nJanuary 23, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Election 2016 is rapidly gaining momentum in the run-up to the Iowa Caucus on<br \/>\nFebruary 1st and the New Hampshire Primary eight days later on February 9th.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Palin has entered the picture by endorsing Donald Trump while the big-wigs<br \/>\nin Davos are reportedly plotting to find a way to sabotage his candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unnatural&#8221; born citizen Ted Cruz is hanging on as are a few others but Trump<br \/>\nremains very strong for the Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Bernie Sanders is doing well in the polls and is benefiting enormously<br \/>\nfrom the latest wave of Clinton scandals that never seem to end.<\/p>\n<p>For those disgusted by the whole process and who would gladly opt for none-of-the-above, a few alternatives have emerged on the periphery of this election madness.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my brief summary of the current options:<br \/>\n1. Third party\/indepenedent: Jim Webb, Michael Bloomberg, Jesse Ventura etc.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/24\/nyregion\/bloomberg-sensing-an-opening-revisits-a-potential-white-house-run.html?_r=0\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/24\/nyregion\/bloomberg-sensing-an-opening-revisits-a-potential-white-house-run.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Write-in: Andrew Basiago, Robert Steele, etc.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=28774\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=28774<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Boycott: last resort before chaos.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=18311\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=18311<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much can be written about all aspects of this short outline of what is unfolding.<br \/>\nWith so much subject to speculation and confusion, I will forego that process<br \/>\nand wait for further developments after some votes have been cast.<\/p>\n<p>What can be stated with certainty is that we are facing a perfect storm of multiple<br \/>\ncrises&#8212;financial, political, cultural and spiritual&#8212;constituting a dramatic challenge<br \/>\nto the very soul of the American Republic and for which no quick remedy is available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rohnert Park, CA January 23, 2016 by Rich Scheck Election 2016 is rapidly gaining momentum in the run-up to the Iowa Caucus on February 1st and the New Hampshire Primary eight days later on February 9th. Sarah Palin has entered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=29616\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}