{"id":193666,"date":"2008-11-25T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/25\/election-updates-2\/"},"modified":"2008-11-25T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T02:01:00","slug":"election-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/25\/election-updates-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2008\/11\/state-pegs-coleman-lead-at-172-votes.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img392.imageshack.us\/img392\/4671\/cf30184005nz0.png\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/><\/a>The recount in Minnesota is getting increasingly conentious in Minnesota, with <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/25\/ballot_challenges_soar_in_minnesota.html\">ballot challenges on the increasing on both sides<\/a>, (click image for current graph) and the Franken campaign expressing <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/18483\/franken-to-ritchie-make-counties-find-missing-ballots\">concerns about missing ballots to the Secretary of State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Franken campaign is claiming that <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/11\/franken_camp_claims_race_still.php\">Norm Coleman and His Evil Minions<sup>&#038;trade<\/sup> are using bogus challenges to keep his total above Franken to influence the canvassing board<\/a>, which will make the final decision on challenged ballots.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a while before this is all sorted out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recount in Minnesota is getting increasingly conentious in Minnesota, with ballot challenges on the increasing on both sides, (click image for current graph) and the Franken campaign expressing concerns about missing ballots to the Secretary of State. Additionally, the Franken campaign is claiming that Norm Coleman and His Evil Minions&#038;trade are using bogus challenges &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-193666","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\/193666"}],"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=193666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}