{"id":7439,"date":"2012-09-26T08:57:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2012-09-26T08:57:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:57:15","slug":"wednesday-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2012\/09\/26\/wednesday-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, by now, I&#8217;m sure everybody&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/09\/24\/el-paso-co-voter-registra_n_1909234.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular\">seen the YouTube video of a cheerful though slightly less than Mensa quality young woman registering voters in Colorado<\/a>.  She&#8217;s working for the County Clerk (she &#8220;thinks&#8221;), but is &#8220;to be honest&#8221; only really interested in registering Romney voters. Now, whether this is some diabolical scheme from the County Republicans, or just some twit who got her marching orders a little mixed up, I don&#8217;t know.  But given the voter suppression efforts around the country by the Republicans, it&#8217;s pretty hard to give them the benefit of the doubt on much of anything.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m really waiting for, though, is the shift in the campaign that will make things close.  Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been a lifelong SU fan, but I&#8217;ve seen defeat snatched from the jaws of victory way too many times. 2004 comes to mind (and 2008, too).  So we&#8217;ll have to see what dirty tricks the Republicans pull out (and how well their voter suppression campaign works out).  <\/p>\n<p>Oh well, I guess I better get back to work.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and happy belated birthday to Okat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, by now, I&#8217;m sure everybody&#8217;s seen the YouTube video of a cheerful though slightly less than Mensa quality young woman registering voters in Colorado. She&#8217;s working for the County Clerk (she &#8220;thinks&#8221;), but is &#8220;to be honest&#8221; only really interested in registering Romney voters. Now, whether this is some diabolical scheme from the County [&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-7439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439","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=7439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7440,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions\/7440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}