{"id":193073,"date":"2009-01-22T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/22\/oh-crap-israeli-polling-numbers\/"},"modified":"2009-01-22T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T23:16:00","slug":"oh-crap-israeli-polling-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/22\/oh-crap-israeli-polling-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Crap: Israeli Polling Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, with the election in about 19 days now, the effect of the Gaza war is being felt, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1057752.html\">the numbers are not good<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are generally as I expected, with Kadima falling further behind Likud, down 4 seats, and with Labor picking up some ground because Barak&#8217;s position as defense minister, and I see that Yisrael Beiteinu is up to 16 seats.<\/p>\n<p>Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?  That group of bigots might be the 3rd largest party in the 130 seat Knesset?<\/p>\n<p>I think that Natanyahu would be a disaster, but this is just gone into the Twilight Zone.<\/p>\n<p>About the only bright side are reports of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE50L28S20090122?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=worldNews\">possible prisoner swap for Gilad Shalid<\/a>, which might move the election out of the, &#8220;Just fracking crazy,&#8221; category, and possibly even lead to a unity government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, with the election in about 19 days now, the effect of the Gaza war is being felt, and the numbers are not good. They are generally as I expected, with Kadima falling further behind Likud, down 4 seats, and with Labor picking up some ground because Barak&#8217;s position as defense minister, and I see &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-193073","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\/193073"}],"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=193073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}