{"id":477535,"date":"2026-09-27T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/477535\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:58:08","slug":"voters-deserve-choices-when-they-disdain-both-major-parties-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/477535\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters deserve choices when they disdain both major parties \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Re \u201cElect independents who ask, \u2018What\u2019s best for U.S.?\u2019\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/enewspaper.sandiegouniontribune.com\/infinity\/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=b0042346-35ab-43a6-a3c7-cc1e1059ed8c&amp;share=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 23<\/a>):\u00a0Our two dominant political parties have succumbed to extremists on the left and right to such an extent that the vote of a typical voter is now largely determined by opposition to the other party\u2019s stance rather than enthusiasm for the positions of his or her own party.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We should indeed strongly encourage independent candidates to throw their hats in the ring, thus allowing each of us to vote for rather than against.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u2014 Mark Wimbush, San Marcos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cElect independents who ask, \u2018What\u2019s best for U.S.?\u2019\u201d (Sept. 23):\u00a0Our two dominant political parties have succumbed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-477535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}