{"id":2111,"date":"2008-11-03T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2008-11-03T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T19:55:00","slug":"expecting_good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2111","title":{"rendered":"Expecting Good Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably going to be too preoccupied tomorrow to do much blogging. But since a bazillion other bloggers are posting their electoral prognostications, I might as well do the same: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obama will win the Electoral College 338-200. Virginia will be called for Obama soon after the polls close, setting the tone for the evening. Florida and Ohio will follow suit, as will Colorado and Nevada. McCain will eke it out in Missouri and North Carolina.<\/li>\n<li>Obama will win the popular vote by 6%.<\/li>\n<li>Dems will control 59 Senate seats. In Minnesota, Franken will pull out a win on the strength of Obama&#8217;s coattails.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>The Dems will pick up 22 House seats. In Minnesota, Madia will win in the 3rd. I&#8217;d love to see Bachmann go down, but the 6th is probably the friendliest territory in the state for her brand of fringe conservatism. <\/li>\n<li>In state races, Dems will get a veto-proof majority in the House. The constitutional amendment to raise the sales tax less than one percent to fund the arts and outdoors will narrowly pass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, my readers reserve the right to mock me if my predictions prove wrong, but I feel pretty good about them.<\/p>\n<p>I sense that most of my readers share my political sympathies, but please do inform yourself and vote, even if it&#8217;s not for my guy. This election is too important and too historical to sit out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably going to be too preoccupied tomorrow to do much blogging. But since a bazillion other bloggers are posting their electoral prognostications, I might as well do the same: Obama will win the Electoral College 338-200. Virginia will be called for Obama soon after the polls close, setting the tone for the evening. Florida <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2111' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-y3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}