{"id":409,"date":"2006-11-06T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2006-11-06T06:41:53","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T11:41:53","slug":"election-eve-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2006\/11\/06\/election-eve-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Election-Eve Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, tomorrow&#8217;s the big day.  As much as I really can&#8217;t wait until this over, I&#8217;m also kind of dreading it, too.  I mean, we&#8217;ve had quite a few shitty elections in a row here.  No need to mention 2000, except that you have to admit it was a pretty interesting time to live through, with paid Republican staffers pretending to be &#8220;outraged&#8221; Florida voters, and an election being quite obviously stolen right there on the teevee in front of us.   I had high hopes for the 2002 midterms, but damned if they didn&#8217;t steal those, too, and fully cement the Bush rubber stamp.  Damed if they didn&#8217;t steal 2004, too.  And why did John Kerry inexplicably just cave in and fail to fight?  Skull and Bones?  Did they threaten to kill his family?  What?<\/p>\n<p>And now we come to another election, where everybody knows who&#8217;s gonna win, if only the election is close to being fair.  And that&#8217;s one thing we sure as hell can&#8217;t count on.  So, that&#8217;s why I approach this thing with a certain amount of dread, &#8216;cuz I don&#8217;t think I can take looking at Smuggy the Chimp and the Pillsbury Rovesboy if they steal this one, too.<\/p>\n<p>Marc and Jim will be guest-hosting Springer again today.  Use <a href=\"http:\/\/a1303.l2001045051.c20010.g.lm.akamaistream.net\/D\/1303\/20010\/v0001\/reflector:45051\">this link in Windows Media Player<\/a> to stream the show, or surf over to <a href=\"http:\/\/wsai.com\/pages\/streaming.html\">WSAI<\/a> and follow the links there.  Jene Galvin must be so psyched to hear the Seditionists are coming back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, tomorrow&#8217;s the big day. As much as I really can&#8217;t wait until this over, I&#8217;m also kind of dreading it, too. I mean, we&#8217;ve had quite a few shitty elections in a row here. No need to mention 2000, except that you have to admit it was a pretty interesting time to live through, [&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-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}