{"id":410,"date":"2006-11-07T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=410"},"modified":"2006-11-07T07:04:01","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T12:04:01","slug":"election-day-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2006\/11\/07\/election-day-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here we go.  Polls open at 6 AM here in the Empire State, and close at 9 PM.  In between, there&#8217;s not a helluva lot to do (assuming you&#8217;re not driving people around or working at the polls).  We&#8217;re &#8220;on-call&#8221; to go and document any voter problems (that reminds me, I&#8217;d better charge up the video camera battery) that might crop up, but, well, this aint Ohio or Florida, so it should be pretty smooth sailing.  It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how turnout is here where I live.  The top of the ticket in NY is a done deal, but we have an extremely close congressional race, and I would personally love to see the smug look wiped off our monkey-faced piece-o-shit Bush rubber stamp. It&#8217;s supposed to be warm today (by our standards), with a little bit of rain here and there, but nothing major.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, I have shitload of stuff to do for class tomorrow that should occupy my mind for most of the day (until the leaked exit polls start coming in), but I really need to get everything done before the polls close, so I can watch the returns come in.  I think I&#8217;ll put up a fresh thread at 9:00  EST so we can post our local results as they come in.  I hope all goes well, but all the trouble spots are pretty much guaranteed to be trouble again this year.  Are people ready to fill the streets this time?  I hope so.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, the fax just came in from the Streisand compound, and you marching orders are to get out there and vote.  Now, let&#8217;s get this over with already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here we go. Polls open at 6 AM here in the Empire State, and close at 9 PM. In between, there&#8217;s not a helluva lot to do (assuming you&#8217;re not driving people around or working at the polls). We&#8217;re &#8220;on-call&#8221; to go and document any voter problems (that reminds me, I&#8217;d better charge up [&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-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}