{"id":3603,"date":"2012-11-05T21:44:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T02:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2012-11-05T21:44:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T02:44:32","slug":"crystal-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3603","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;d be breaking some sort of Bloggers&#8217; Code of Conduct if I didn&#8217;t post my predictions for tomorrow:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President: Obama receives 303 electoral votes to Romney&#8217;s 235. I&#8217;m giving Romney Florida and North Carolina, but Florida could go blue if turnout is high and people don&#8217;t have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2012\/11\/no-one-in-america-should-have-to-wait-7-hours-to-vote\/264506\/\">wait seven hours to vote<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Minnesota Senator: Klobuchar had the good fortune to run against a Ron Paul acolyte who ran a completely amateurish campaign. I&#8217;d be surprised if Klobuchar&#8217;s margin is anything less than 25 points.<\/li>\n<li>Marriage Amendment: I want to believe Minnesota will be one of several states to repudiate efforts to deny equality to our friends, neighbors, and family. It will be close, but I&#8217;m predicting defeat.<\/li>\n<li>Voter I.D. Amendment: This will pass. My informal polling has found many people who have bought into the notion that voter fraud is a real problem. Expect lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the amendment soon afterwards.<\/li>\n<li>Minnesota Legislature: Hang on, I have to flip a coin. Okay, Democrats will re-take the Minnesota Senate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;d be breaking some sort of Bloggers&#8217; Code of Conduct if I didn&#8217;t post my predictions for tomorrow: President: Obama receives 303 electoral votes to Romney&#8217;s 235. I&#8217;m giving Romney Florida and North Carolina, but Florida could go blue if turnout is high and people don&#8217;t have to wait seven hours to <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3603' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-W7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","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=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3604,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions\/3604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}