{"id":75045,"date":"2012-11-22T23:12:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T07:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=19147"},"modified":"2012-11-22T23:12:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T07:12:45","slug":"prop-37-vs-obama-by-county-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/22\/prop-37-vs-obama-by-county-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prop 37 vs. Obama (by county)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up my request <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/11\/san-francisco-supported-proposition-37\/#comments\">a reader crunched the numbers<\/a> (here is his <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/4122837\">data table<\/a>) to show the association between supporting <a href=\"http:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/wiki\/index.php\/California_Proposition_37,_Mandatory_Labeling_of_Genetically_Engineered_Food_(2012)\">supporting Proposition 37<\/a> and voting for Barack Obama by county in California:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/11\/cNfRw.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19148\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/11\/cNfRw.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From what I know this issue <i>really<\/i> polarized people in highly educated liberal enclaves in the state of California. Many of my Left non-scientist friends supported the measure because of an anti-corporate animus. But, another issue that sometimes came up was transparency and fair play, in a &#8220;teach the controversy&#8221; fashion. My own contention is on the scientific point <b>there is no controversy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/3yBgncJ_U98\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up my request a reader crunched the numbers (here is his data table) to show the association between supporting supporting Proposition 37 and voting for Barack Obama by county in California: From what I know this issue really polarized people in highly educated liberal enclaves in the state of California. Many of my Left [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75045"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75200,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75045\/revisions\/75200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}