{"id":689,"date":"2012-07-12T10:46:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=689"},"modified":"2012-07-12T10:46:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:46:32","slug":"battleground-states-are-seeing-more-registered-independents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/07\/12\/battleground-states-are-seeing-more-registered-independents\/","title":{"rendered":"Battleground States Are Seeing More Registered Independents"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Battleground States Are Seeing More Registered Independents<\/h2>\n<p>More  voters in key states such as Colorado, Florida and New Hampshire  are  registering as independents, according to a study by Bloomberg   Businessweek. About 443,000 new voters identified as independent, mostly   cutting into the registration numbers for for Democrats. The Democrats   lost about 480,000 voters since the 2008 elections, while the   Republicans gained about 38,000 in their ranks.<\/p>\n<p> Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedaily.com\/page\/2012\/07\/11\/071112-news-independent-voters-wickman-zzinfogrzz\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The  Justice Department has sued a Texas agency, alleging that the   department was violating the civil rights of three female employees who   were paid significantly less than their male counterparts. The three   women, who worked for disaster recovery division within the now-defunct   Texas Department of Rural Affairs, were discriminated against with  their  pay, the lawsuit claims, based on internal memos that showed the  women  making between $17,600 to $22,500 less than their male  counterparts.<\/p>\n<p> Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/texaspolitics\/2012\/07\/feds-sue-texas-agencies-over-gender-discrimination\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/thenextamerica\/diversityinbrief\/battleground-states-are-seeing-more-registered-independents-20120712\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/thenextamerica\/diversityinbrief\/battleground-states-are-seeing-more-registered-independents-20120712\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/thenextamerica\/diversityinbrief\/battleground-states-are-seeing-more-registered-independents-20120712<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battleground States Are Seeing More Registered Independents More voters in key states such as Colorado, Florida and New Hampshire are registering as independents, according to a study by Bloomberg Businessweek. About 443,000 new voters identified as independent, mostly cutting into the registration numbers for for Democrats. The Democrats lost about 480,000 voters since the 2008 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/07\/12\/battleground-states-are-seeing-more-registered-independents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Battleground States Are Seeing More Registered Independents&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[307,114,6],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-doris-nhan","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-b7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}