{"id":20132,"date":"2020-11-04T18:53:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T01:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=20132"},"modified":"2020-11-04T18:53:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T01:53:06","slug":"biden-at-270-faith-spirited-eagle-could-still-prove-spoiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2020\/11\/04\/biden-at-270-faith-spirited-eagle-could-still-prove-spoiler\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden at 270, Faith Spirited Eagle could still prove spoiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear Biden will be able to declare victory tomorrow.  This differs from Trump, who already declared victory &#8212; never mind the vote tallies.<\/p>\n<p>Nevada&#8217;s 6 electoral votes gets Biden to 270.  Interesting, this is because Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/omaha.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/govt-and-politics\/biden-benefited-from-nebraska-s-electoral-vote-system-republicans-have-long-sought-to-change-it\/article_b7d74cd1-20e1-54fd-bf8d-dce85b1c2156.html\">carried Omaha and environs<\/a>.  Though, that Omaha district only comes into play because Trump carried the huge swarth of Northern Maine, the other state that allots to congressional district. <\/p>\n<p>Should everything else fall apart and Pennsylvania and Georgia and North Carolina go Trump&#8217;s way, then Biden sits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kasie\/status\/1323894960899399681\">one faithless elector away<\/a> from throwing it all off.  Mind you, we can assume last election&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election\">&#8220;Colin Powell&#8221; and &#8220;John Kasich&#8221; voters will stick by the Democrat, as too the Bernie Sanders voter,<\/a> but what of the Ron Paul or Faith Spotted Eagle&#8211; clearly having more issues to dispose of?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear Biden will be able to declare victory tomorrow. This differs from Trump, who already declared victory &#8212; never mind the vote tallies. Nevada&#8217;s 6 electoral votes gets Biden to 270. Interesting, this is because Biden carried Omaha and environs. Though, that Omaha district only comes into play because Trump carried the huge [&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-20132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20132","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=20132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20134,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20132\/revisions\/20134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}