{"id":10527,"date":"2024-11-08T19:42:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T19:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2024\/11\/08\/editorial-heres-how-savvy-colorado-voters-navigated-the-monstrous-2024-ballot\/137072\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T19:42:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T19:42:20","slug":"editorial-heres-how-savvy-colorado-voters-navigated-the-monstrous-2024-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/editorial-heres-how-savvy-colorado-voters-navigated-the-monstrous-2024-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Here&#8217;s how savvy Colorado voters navigated the monstrous 2024 ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/editorial-heres-how-savvy-colorado-voters-navigated-the-monstrous-2024-ballot\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AP24310740837679_68b46b-5-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/editorial-heres-how-savvy-colorado-voters-navigated-the-monstrous-2024-ballot.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/editorial-heres-how-savvy-colorado-voters-navigated-the-monstrous-2024-ballot-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<p>Colorado\u2019s election results tell us that more of our neighbors are feeling bad about Tuesday night\u2019s presidential outcome than are feeling good, but what about the down-ballot races?<\/p>\n<p>Colorado voters navigated a complex ballot full of policy questions and did a remarkable job of parsing through the pros and cons of each measure.<\/p>\n<p>As Donald Trump regains the White House with a Republican majority in the House and Senate, we are thrilled voters in Colorado have added constitutional protections to abortion. A remarkable 61% of voters wanted reproductive freedoms in the state Constitution and repealed an outdated law preventing Medicaid from covering abortions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/11\/08\/colorado-election-results-trump-abortion-ballot-measures-crime\/\">Read the rest of this story on TheKnow.DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado\u2019s election results tell us that more of our neighbors are feeling bad about Tuesday night\u2019s presidential outcome than are feeling good, but what about the down-ballot races? Colorado voters navigated a complex ballot full of policy questions and did a remarkable job of parsing through the pros and cons of each measure. As Donald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1062,5662,2435,9,227,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[3632,5668,2436,2805],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}