{"id":3224,"date":"2008-12-03T10:23:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T17:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/03\/georgia-election-finished\/"},"modified":"2008-12-03T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T17:23:06","slug":"georgia-election-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/03\/georgia-election-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia election, finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday mid afternoon, I looked around at some comments at various websites, and picked up the anecdotal evidence that Saxby Chambliss was on the way to a victory.\u00c2\u00a0 Reports were that Atlanta voting spots were empty, emptier, and emptiest.\u00c2\u00a0 The urge to get Democrats to a 59th seat as opposed to a 58th seat was a rather unspectacular goal &#8212; Obama has been elected, that&#8217;s all anyone cared about, this is an anti-climax.\u00c2\u00a0 Meanwhile, Republicans spot this election as the only thing standing between Complete Democratic Socialist Domination and &#8230; not exactly divided government, but cracked government.\u00c2\u00a0 The election surrogates itself &#8212; try to spot the &#8220;Which of these people is doing its own thing&#8221; in this list:<\/p>\n<p><em>on the Republican side, Gov. <\/em><font color=\"#004276\"><em>Sarah Palin<\/em><\/font><em> of Alaska, <\/em><font color=\"#004276\"><em>Mitt Romney<\/em><\/font><em> and <\/em><font color=\"#004276\"><em>Rudolph W. Giuliani<\/em><\/font><em>. The Democrats sent former President <\/em><font color=\"#004276\"><em>Bill Clinton<\/em><\/font><em>, former Vice President <\/em><font color=\"#004276\"><em>Al Gore<\/em><\/font><em> and the rapper <\/em><font color=\"#004276\"><em>Ludacris.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/03\/us\/politics\/03georgia.html?_r=1\">The New York Times article<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0on the election also\u00c2\u00a0brings, or brought,\u00c2\u00a0one interesting item from a 16 year old campaign worker who trucked in from out of state to campaign for Chambliss &#8212; and, not being able to find it in the article I have to dredge it out of a search&#8230; On why we need Chambliss to prevail.:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153America is a <strong>center-right<\/strong> country,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We need to have a balance of power.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This saddens me.\u00c2\u00a0 His reasoning is a weird meaningless talking point.\u00c2\u00a0 He has a couple years to knock that out of his system before he comes to voting age (and I&#8217;m not referring to his partisan politics), but knowing the world of politics, he probably won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday mid afternoon, I looked around at some comments at various websites, and picked up the anecdotal evidence that Saxby Chambliss was on the way to a victory.\u00c2\u00a0 Reports were that Atlanta voting spots were empty, emptier, and emptiest.\u00c2\u00a0 The urge to get Democrats to a 59th seat as opposed to a 58th seat was [&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-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224","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=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}