{"id":733,"date":"2022-11-12T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:29:15","slug":"election-results-from-perspective-of-peace-and-life-connections-a-consistent-ethic-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"Election results from perspective of &#8220;Peace and Life Connections&#8221;, a consistent ethic group."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202af14a5ad7f200b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Peace and life connections\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202af14a5ad7f200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202af14a5ad7f200b-400wi\" style=\"width: 360px;\" title=\"Peace and life connections\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.verticalresponse.com\/651838\/32dccebc93\/287604277\/3ff6215457\/\">Election Results<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#0160; The pattern on the <a href=\"https:\/\/cts.vresp.com\/c\/?ConsistentLife\/32dccebc93\/3ff6215457\/e02df55a0d\">referendums we tracked<\/a> is clear: all three poverty-reduction measures passed, as did the removal of the exception for abolishing slavery (crime conviction). Tennessee passed that with almost 80%!<br \/>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; But all the abortion-related measures came out different from our hopes. The \u201cno right\u201d to abortion amendments had a perfect track record pre-Dobbs, when the context was defiance of judicial imposition. Post-Dobbs, the context is whether or not people have rights. The framing suffers. Abortion joins the death penalty as an issue where simple referendums may not be the best strategy.<br \/>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; We offer <a href=\"https:\/\/cts.vresp.com\/c\/?ConsistentLife\/32dccebc93\/3ff6215457\/ea16701566\">some ideas for referendums<\/a> that may work better, especially a Positive Protection Approach.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Results &#0160; The pattern on the referendums we tracked is clear: all three poverty-reduction measures passed, as did the removal of the exception for abolishing slavery (crime conviction). Tennessee passed that with almost 80%!&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; But all the abortion-related measures came out different from our hopes. The \u201cno right\u201d to abortion amendments had a perfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6344,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/6344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}