{"id":7891,"date":"2011-04-07T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=7891"},"modified":"2011-04-07T13:53:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T20:53:58","slug":"the-gummint-shut-down-leads-to-clinton-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/04\/07\/the-gummint-shut-down-leads-to-clinton-96\/","title":{"rendered":"the gummint shut down leads to Clinton ’96."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Good news.\u00c2\u00a0 Paul Ryan has in his hand “The Path to Prosperity”.
\nWe just need to follow it and we’ll have prosperity.\u00c2\u00a0
\nThere oughta be a law that requires politicians’ documents have generic and un-appetizing names.<\/p>\n

Kind of like Australia’s cigarette packaging<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reading the tea-leaves of Presidential and other political Contest 2012<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

A day after JoAnne Kloppenburg declared victory, Winnebago County has reported new numbers that give a new 40-vote edge to David Prosser. That’s 40 votes out of close to 1.5 million votes.<\/em><\/p>\n

In context, the last election went like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
David Prosser (incumbent)<\/strong><\/td>\n549,860<\/strong><\/td>\n99.53%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
(Scattering)<\/td>\n2,569<\/td>\n0.47%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I want to know who those scattered candidates were in 2001.
\n\u00c2\u00a0Or I probably don’t.<\/p>\n

The discovery of enough votes to put Prosser over the top has quelled the chomping at the bit from various conservative blogs and commentators about voting fraud.\u00c2\u00a0 And it’s become siren<\/p>\n

It’s been noted by everyone the sheer dullness of Obama’s 2012 kick-off video.\u00c2\u00a0 The people bounce about, relating their tepid support for Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 It figures, though I’ve never really known what there was for people to be “disappointed” (or all that disappointed<\/a>)… we talk about elections in the most surreal way.\u00c2\u00a0 Things were given away with the whole “Campaign in poetry, govern in prose” line — which always struck me as meaning –???\u00c2\u00a0 Well, Obama’s no Pawlenty, I guess.<\/p>\n

He does need a strong performance by the Senate candidate in Virginia in order to win what proved to be his pivotal state in 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s why he worked to get Tim Kaine in the race.\u00c2\u00a0 And he has this working for him.<\/p>\n

George Allen is not going to win his Senate election<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NBC 4\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reporter-anchor Craig Melvin is a tall African-American. Which apparently led to this exchange with former Sen. George Allen, according to Melvin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Twitter account Tuesday night: <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153For the 2nd time in 5 months, fmr. gov. and sen candidate George Allen asks me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009dwhat position did you play?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I did not a play a sport.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

I like Allen’s twitter reponse.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

sorry if I offended, ask people a lot if they played sports Grew up in fball family found sports banter good way to connect”<\/em><\/p>\n

Sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good news.\u00c2\u00a0 Paul Ryan has in his hand “The Path to Prosperity”. We just need to follow it and we’ll have prosperity.\u00c2\u00a0 There oughta be a law that requires politicians’ documents have generic and un-appetizing names. Kind of like Australia’s cigarette packaging. Reading the tea-leaves of Presidential and other political Contest 2012: A day after […]<\/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-7891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891","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=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7898,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions\/7898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}