{"id":3222,"date":"2008-12-02T08:36:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/02\/georgia-votes-today-again\/"},"modified":"2008-12-02T08:36:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:36:47","slug":"georgia-votes-today-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/02\/georgia-votes-today-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia votes today, again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is Election Day Part 2 in Georgia, with the run-off between Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin deciding the difference between Democrat #58 and Democrat #59, and Republican #40 and Republican #41 &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heralddeparis.com\/grumpy-middle-aged-politicians-the-ongoing-saga-of-al-franken-vs-norm-coleman\/12982\">the Minnesota race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman still outstanding<\/a>, state court having ruled a swarth of absentee ballots won&#8217;t be\u00c2\u00a0checked and Franken&#8217;s hopes hanging on a higher court reversing that decision with perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2008\/11\/28\/with_big_stakes_us_senate_could_decide_colemanfranken_race\/\">one dreaded action from the goddamned US Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The money is that Jim Martin will win only in a fluke, and a wonky turn-out model &#8212; I suppose a conceit already dissolved because Sarah Palin made an appearance in Georgia to bring out her base.\u00c2\u00a0 Should Chambliss win, it&#8217;ll be his seat as long as he wants it, I&#8217;d suspect.<\/p>\n<p>With all that in mind:\u00c2\u00a0 Georgians, Vote.\u00c2\u00a0 A rendition of the old joke on &#8220;voting early and voting often&#8221;, another variation of the joke about &#8220;Get to the polls, if you&#8217;re a Martin supporter, and if you&#8217;re for Chambliss, go ahead and sleep in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, while by definition &#8212; run-off election &#8212; there are only two names on the ballot and no blank spot write-in slot, that wouldn&#8217;t stop voters of &#8220;Lizard People&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember, though:\u00c2\u00a0 a vote for &#8220;Lizard People&#8221; is a vote for Saxby Chambliss.\u00c2\u00a0 And vice versa:\u00c2\u00a0 a vote for Saxby Chambliss is a vote for Lizard People.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Election Day Part 2 in Georgia, with the run-off between Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin deciding the difference between Democrat #58 and Democrat #59, and Republican #40 and Republican #41 &#8212; the Minnesota race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman still outstanding, state court having ruled a swarth of absentee ballots won&#8217;t be\u00c2\u00a0checked [&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-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222","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=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}