{"id":188509,"date":"2010-09-13T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/13\/not-gonna-happen-3\/"},"modified":"2010-09-13T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T01:53:00","slug":"not-gonna-happen-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/13\/not-gonna-happen-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Gonna Happen\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest polling on the Texas governor&#8217;s race has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texaswatch.org\/2010\/09\/poll2010\/\">the Republican Rick Perry leading Bill White by 42% to 41%<\/a>, which, given that undecideds generally swing against the incumbent (Perry) means that White could actually win this election, and might therefore be able to have a significant influence on redistricting.<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxan.com\/dpp\/news\/politics\/poll-texas-governor-race-is-tight\">this poll<\/a>, which has Perry up by 39% to 33% shows that the race is pretty close.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the specifics of the polls make a difference, but this should be interesting in November, particularly given the ability of Governor Goodhair to put his foot in his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the phrase, &#8220;Margin of Error&#8221; figures prominently, as will the dynamics of early voting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest polling on the Texas governor&#8217;s race has the Republican Rick Perry leading Bill White by 42% to 41%, which, given that undecideds generally swing against the incumbent (Perry) means that White could actually win this election, and might therefore be able to have a significant influence on redistricting. The same goes for this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1091,992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-polls","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}