{"id":4351,"date":"2009-03-15T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/most-voters-in-poll-dont-want-long-serving-legislators\/"},"modified":"2009-03-15T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T04:12:00","slug":"most-voters-in-poll-dont-want-long-serving-legislators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/most-voters-in-poll-dont-want-long-serving-legislators\/","title":{"rendered":"Most voters in poll don&#8217;t want long-serving legislators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The majority of those who voted in last week\u2019s non-scientific poll on this site said legislators should not be allowed to hold office for decades at a time because they become too jaded or corrupt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Of 202 voters, 124, or 61 percent, picked that answer, while 74, or 37 percent, said legislators should be allowed to serve that long because no one should be barred from serving the public. Four voters, or 2 percent, said they don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Don\u2019t forget to vote in this week\u2019s poll, located at the top of the right column on this page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of those who voted in last week\u2019s non-scientific poll on this site said legislators should not be allowed to hold office for decades at a time because they become too jaded or corrupt. Of 202 voters, 124, or 61 percent, picked that answer, while 74, or 37 percent, said legislators should be allowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}