{"id":192879,"date":"2009-02-10T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/10\/another-prediction-goes-south-israeli-elections\/"},"modified":"2009-02-10T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T02:47:00","slug":"another-prediction-goes-south-israeli-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/10\/another-prediction-goes-south-israeli-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Prediction Goes South: Israeli Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The projected results have <a href=\"http:\/\/haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1063105.html\">Kadima out-polling Likud<\/a> by one vote, 28 to 27, with Yisrael Beitenu next at 15 seats, and Labor in 4th place at 13 seats, Shas (ultra-orthodox Sephardic party) at 11, with the remaining 26 seats divided amongst 7 other parties who got between 3 and 5 votes.<\/p>\n<p>While I am pleasantly shocked (and once again wrong in my prediction) that Livni out-polled Netanyahu, it&#8217;s still even odds that Bibi will be the next PM, as the bloc generally considered right wing numbers 62-63.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, we are now well into coalition politics, which is less clear than an airline&#8217;s frequent flier program, as the graphics below hint:<\/p>\n<p><span><embed SRC=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.co.il\/hasite\/images\/politico\/seker\/flash\/results_emet\/results_english5.swf\"  quality=best WIDTH=\"468\" HEIGHT=\"680\" NAME=\"name\" ALIGN=\"\" TYPE=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" PLUGINSPAGE=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The projected results have Kadima out-polling Likud by one vote, 28 to 27, with Yisrael Beitenu next at 15 seats, and Labor in 4th place at 13 seats, Shas (ultra-orthodox Sephardic party) at 11, with the remaining 26 seats divided amongst 7 other parties who got between 3 and 5 votes. While I am pleasantly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192879"}],"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=192879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}