{"id":1165,"date":"2004-04-24T14:19:45","date_gmt":"2004-04-24T21:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2004-04-24T14:19:45","modified_gmt":"2004-04-24T21:19:45","slug":"blog-comment-of-the-day-like-a-nightmarish-issac-asimov-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/04\/24\/blog-comment-of-the-day-like-a-nightmarish-issac-asimov-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Comment of the Day: Like a Nightmarish Issac Asimov Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002199\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/comments\/2004\/4\/24\/83759\/4651\/2?mode=alone;showrate=1#2\">From here<\/a>, regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/2004\/la-na-dems24apr24,1,6687008.story?coll=la-politics-pointers\">this story<\/a>:  <i>sometimes I feel like I&#8217;m living in that old Isaac Asimov story where computers determine through a complex serious of calculations who the one person is who is the MOST &#8220;swing voter&#8221; in the country.  And then only that person gets to vote because all the rest of us are safely &#8220;blue&#8221; or &#8220;red&#8221;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>See also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2004\/4\/24\/121723\/541\">tomorrow&#8217;s NY Times Magazine story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here, regarding this story: sometimes I feel like I&#8217;m living in that old Isaac Asimov story where computers determine through a complex serious of calculations who the one person is who is the MOST &#8220;swing voter&#8221; in the country. And then only that person gets to vote because all the rest of us are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}