{"id":1123,"date":"2008-11-01T05:04:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T10:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2008-11-01T05:04:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T10:04:55","slug":"votematch-as-a-propoganda-fighting-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/01\/votematch-as-a-propoganda-fighting-machine","title":{"rendered":"VoteMatch as a propoganda fighting machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votematchusa.org\/\">VoteMatch USA<\/a>. This idea was developed in the Netherlands by the Institute for Political Participation, I saw it on CNN today, and now they&#8217;ve got it applied to the US Elections. <\/p>\n<p>I always felt I liked Barack Obama, but now I know that I am skewed to his policies, by about 83%. I really like the idea of VoteMatch.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Malaysians showed Barisan Nasional that they&#8217;ve had enough. March 8 2008 is a day that will go down in history books. The next general elections, Malaysians will be <i>ready<\/i> for something like VoteMatch Malaysia. By 2012\/2013, there will be so much Internet penetration, even more young guns who&#8217;ve been exposed to more freedoms, and even more that will want change.<\/p>\n<p>VoteMatch is a propaganda fighting machine. No matter how many adverts there are in the media, how much parties embrace social media, there&#8217;s just been no way to show clearly, whom one would want to vote for. VoteMatch seems to be the answer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out VoteMatch USA. This idea was developed in the Netherlands by the Institute for Political Participation, I saw it on CNN today, and now they&#8217;ve got it applied to the US Elections. I always felt I liked Barack Obama, but now I know that I am skewed to his policies, by about 83%. I [&hellip;]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[1],"tags":[480,438,545],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-politics","tag-rawideabin","tag-votematch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-i7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}