{"id":4257,"date":"2014-11-03T17:29:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T22:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=4257"},"modified":"2014-11-03T17:29:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T22:29:03","slug":"this-is-how-you-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=4257","title":{"rendered":"This is How You Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Democrats have shown how to make lemonade when life hands you lemons. This is just one of Delegate Ariana Kelly&#8217;s responses on Facebook to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=4173\">very low early voting turnout in her district<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ariana1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ariana1.jpg\" alt=\"ariana1\" width=\"1002\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ariana1.jpg 1002w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ariana1-300x97.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In other words, she used a negative&#8211;low Democratic turnout in early voting in her district&#8211;as a means to stimulate more people in her network to go out and vote. Call it early voting jujitsu.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery County Young Democrats President Nik Sushka is using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=4210\">tightness of the gubernatorial race<\/a> to similar effect:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Nik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Nik-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"Nik\" width=\"474\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Nik-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Nik-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Nik.jpg 1370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In other words, instead of denying that there is a problem or just bemoaning it, use it to motivate supporters. Smart leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Democrats have shown how to make lemonade when life hands you lemons. This is just one of Delegate Ariana Kelly&#8217;s responses on Facebook to very low early voting turnout in her district: In other words, she used a negative&#8211;low Democratic turnout in early voting in her district&#8211;as a means to stimulate more people in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=4257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is How You Do It<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,217],"tags":[1531,1093,1638,602,796],"class_list":["post-4257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2014-elections","category-turnout","tag-ariana-kelly","tag-campaigns","tag-mcyd","tag-montgomery-county-young-democrats","tag-nik-sushka"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-16F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4261,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions\/4261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}