{"id":26101,"date":"2016-05-27T09:47:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T16:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/transhumanist-visionary-zoltan-istvan-believes-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-need-him-to-win"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:58:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:58:38","slug":"transhumanist-visionary-zoltan-istvan-believes-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-need-him-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/transhumanist-visionary-zoltan-istvan-believes-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-need-him-to-win","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanist visionary Zoltan Istvan believes Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton need him to win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transhumanist-visionary-zoltan-istvan-believes-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-need-him-to-win.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an article on transhumanism in Oregon\u2019s largest paper, The Oregonian: It highlights something I\u2019m trying to create: the impact of a \u201clongevity vote\u201d in the elections to make a difference for the length of people\u2019s lifespans.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Zoltan Istvan is ready to encourage his supporters to vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in November \u2014 if one of the major-party candidates agrees to put him to work in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019d better take his offer seriously, because he figures he just might be able to tip the election whichever way he wants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we\u2019re getting down to the end, and it\u2019s close, as expected, this could be appealing to a candidate,\u201d Istvan told The Oregonian this week. He believes he could bring a candidate somewhere between 250,000 and a million votes.<\/p>\n<p>If neither Clinton nor Trump takes him up on his proposed deal, he\u2019ll keep those votes for himself. Istvan, a former journalist, is the presidential candidate for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transhumanistparty.org\/\">Transhumanist Party<\/a>, which he created in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/today\/index.ssf\/2016\/05\/transhumanist_candidate_zoltan.html\">http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/today\/index.ssf\/2016\/05\/transhuman...oltan.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an article on transhumanism in Oregon\u2019s largest paper, The Oregonian: It highlights something I\u2019m trying to create: the impact of a \u201clongevity vote\u201d in the elections to make a difference for the length of people\u2019s lifespans. Zoltan Istvan is ready to encourage his supporters to vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67414,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26101\/revisions\/67414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}