{"id":14316,"date":"2014-10-06T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T00:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14316"},"modified":"2014-10-06T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T00:48:07","slug":"six-to-decide-or-ten-also-all-its-going-to-decide-is-something-canada-cares-about-so-dont-bother-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/10\/06\/six-to-decide-or-ten-also-all-its-going-to-decide-is-something-canada-cares-about-so-dont-bother-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"six to decide.  Or ten.  Also all it&#8217;s going to decide is something Canada cares about, so don&#8217;t bother voting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always amusing to see foreign press on American elections.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s at stake for the midterms&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/politics\/worldpolitics\/obamas-last-chance\/\">Obama&#8217;s Legacy&#8230; the Alaskan Pipeline<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And&#8230; anything else matter?<\/p>\n<p>No.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s goddamned Canada.\u00c2\u00a0 Who cares if the tax code shifts here or there?<\/p>\n<p>I like the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/10\/06\/1334589\/-Daily-Kos-Election-Outlook-Michigan-Senate-race-starts-moving-off-the-table\">Less than One Percent&#8221; chancers<\/a> that this dailykos chart has in tracking Democratic Party chances.\u00c2\u00a0 Note that this goes up against the &#8220;Greater than 99 percent chancers&#8221; for the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the 10 there in the middle are pegged in all news reports as &#8220;could decide the Senate&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Or&#8230; maybe some other race will decide the Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 Who can say?<\/p>\n<p>Canada says six.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/senate-outlook\">They&#8217;re four fewer than the Huffington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I predict an upset in Wyoming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always amusing to see foreign press on American elections.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s at stake for the midterms&#8230; Obama&#8217;s Legacy&#8230; the Alaskan Pipeline.\u00c2\u00a0 And&#8230; anything else matter? No.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s goddamned Canada.\u00c2\u00a0 Who cares if the tax code shifts here or there? I like the &#8220;Less than One Percent&#8221; chancers that this dailykos chart has in tracking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316","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=14316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14318,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions\/14318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}