{"id":1390008,"date":"2016-05-25T09:44:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T13:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1390008"},"modified":"2016-05-25T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T13:44:55","slug":"calling-all-sparklers-tell-us-what-you-think-about-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/calling-all-sparklers-tell-us-what-you-think-about-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"CALLING ALL SPARKLERS: Tell Us What You Think About the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/callingall0524_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Some of you get to vote in this election, some of you don&#8217;t; some of you have showed up to primaries and caucuses already, \u00a0and some of you were stuck at the UNLV graduation ceremony \u00a0while the \u00a0raucous Nevada state convention transpired. Some of you aren&#8217;t U.S. citizens, and can only watch passively, hoping that America \u00a0picks the right person for the West Wing.<\/p>\n<p>We have one writer <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/blog\/contributor\/halanscott\" target=\"_blank\">covering the election<\/a>, and breaking down the issues\u2014H. Alan essentially <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/03\/17\/sparknoting-the-election-reap-what-ye-sow\" target=\"_blank\">called<\/a> the primary outcomes \u00a0correctly back in March\u2014but ultimately, that is just one voice. We are always interested in people submitting their views through <a href=\"mailto:contribute@sparknotes.com\" target=\"_blank\">contribute@sparknotes.com<\/a> (no takers yet on \u00a0our open call for Trump supporters to say their piece!), which is why we want to know <strong>who you are or would vote for and \u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>why<\/strong>. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What matters to you: student debt forgiveness? Universal healthcare? Tamping down on immigrant intake? Investing in infrastructure projects to create jobs? Winding down America&#8217;s military involvement in the Middle East? Dialing it up? Offering every student in the country free gelato on Fridays? Building more baseball stadiums? Do you even care about tax policy, or have you yet to file a tax return? Are you still mourning the day John Kasich told us his pizza-eating campaign days were behind him? TELL US!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll share some of your views with the great, wide, world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you get to vote in this election, some of you don&#8217;t; some of you have showed up to primaries and caucuses already, \u00a0and some of you were stuck at the UNLV graduation ceremony   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[21041,8619,18711,20347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390008"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}