{"id":6619,"date":"2012-08-31T10:19:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T14:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2012-08-31T10:19:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T14:19:34","slug":"clinton-eastwood-and-the-gun-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6619","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Eastwood and the gun vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the commentators made a remark during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/on-air\/oreilly\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0coverage of the GOP convention yesterday that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-57503994-503544\/clint-eastwoods-gop-convention-speech-full-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clinton Eastwood<\/a> was brought in to get the gun vote for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mittromney.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a>. \u00a0O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s \u00a0(paraphrased) response was that there is no way gunnies would vote for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a> and it was just a matter if they would vote at all.<\/p>\n<p>This is true. \u00a0I still don&#8217;t see any great enthusiasm from the gun community to turn out the vote for Romney, even after the addition of the legitimately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2012-08-13\/paul-ryan-and-the-gun-control-factor\" target=\"_blank\">pro-gun Paul Ryan<\/a> to the ticket. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2012\/08\/26\/The-NRA-to-Gun-Owners-Are-You-All-In-This-November\" target=\"_blank\">NRA&#8217;s &#8220;All In&#8221; campaign<\/a> isn&#8217;t very inspiring either.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D6619&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6619\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6619\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6619\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the commentators made a remark during Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s\u00a0coverage of the GOP convention yesterday that Clinton Eastwood was brought in to get the gun vote for Mitt Romney. \u00a0O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s \u00a0(paraphrased) response was that there is no way gunnies would vote for Obama and it was just a matter if they would vote at all. 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