{"id":193538,"date":"2008-12-08T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/08\/election-update-16\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T01:30:00","slug":"election-update-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/08\/election-update-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, first some definitive news, <a href=\"http:\/\/dispatch.com\/live\/content\/local_news\/stories\/2008\/12\/07\/election.html?sid=101\">Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy has beaten Steve Stivers in Ohio&#8217;s 15th district<\/a>.  She was behind on election night, but the provisional ballots came from her electoral stronghold, the certified vote has her winning by 2411 votes.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksla.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=9471742\">Republican John Fleming has defeated Democrat Paul Carmouche by just 356 votes<\/a> in LA-4.<\/p>\n<p>Things are still up in the air in Minnesota, with <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2008\/12\/08\/franken_campaign_withdraws_more_challenged_ballots\/\">the Franken campaign withdrawing more challenges<\/a>, and Minneapolis has<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/35728824.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUec7PaP3E77K_0c::D3aDhUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiU\">called off the search for the missing ballots<\/a>, and will just report what was counted on election day.<\/p>\n<p>As always, it should come down to the challenges in Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, first some definitive news, Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy has beaten Steve Stivers in Ohio&#8217;s 15th district. She was behind on election night, but the provisional ballots came from her electoral stronghold, the certified vote has her winning by 2411 votes. On the other hand it looks like Republican John Fleming has defeated Democrat Paul &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193538"}],"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=193538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}