{"id":1171,"date":"2008-10-23T06:23:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T10:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2008-10-23T06:56:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T10:56:36","slug":"thursday-open-thread-128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/10\/23\/thursday-open-thread-128\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, sounds like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/10\/22\/chuck-todd-on-mccain-pali_n_137014.html\">Sarah and Johnny aren&#8217;t exactly playing well together<\/a>.   Gee, that&#8217;s too bad.  It&#8217;ll be nice to get this election over with and see Palin fade into the northern horizon, and McCain go back and wait out what&#8217;s left of his Senate term in well-deserved obscurity (he and Liebermann can go off into some dark corner of the Senate Office Building and engage in mutual masturbation for a few years).  As long as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2008\/10\/ap_presidential_poll_all_even.php\">this AP poll<\/a> is just an outlier (or a deliberate attempt to skew things), that is.   I much prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openleft.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=9306\">Chris Bowers&#8217; electoral map<\/a>, which has Obama over 270 in states where he leads by 7% or more, with a good shot at 306 and in play for up to 384 electoral votes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/larry-david\/waiting-for-nov-4th_b_137029.html\">I agree with Larry David<\/a>, though.  This is worse than waiting for lab results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, sounds like Sarah and Johnny aren&#8217;t exactly playing well together. Gee, that&#8217;s too bad. It&#8217;ll be nice to get this election over with and see Palin fade into the northern horizon, and McCain go back and wait out what&#8217;s left of his Senate term in well-deserved obscurity (he and Liebermann can go off into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}