{"id":194097,"date":"2008-10-24T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/24\/bachmann-now-behind-tinklenberg\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T22:37:00","slug":"bachmann-now-behind-tinklenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/24\/bachmann-now-behind-tinklenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann Now Behind Tinklenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveyusa.com\/client\/PollReport.aspx?g=92d66d48-fd01-4c82-bf70-62e4878df202\">SurveyUSA has the numbers<\/a>:<br \/>Michele Bachmann(Insane &#8216;Phant): 44%<br \/>Elwyn Tinklenberg<sup>*<\/sup> (D): 47%<br \/>Bob Anderson (I) 6%.<\/p>\n<p>There is a 4% margin of error, so it&#8217;s still too close to call. There is only about 2% undecided, and so the 2:1 undecideds breaking against the incumbent does not mean much here.<\/p>\n<p>It will be close.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I know that it&#8217;s not nice to make fun of someone&#8217;s name, but his name <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">still<\/span> sounds like a character from Garrison Keillor&#8217;s fictional Lake Wobegone.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SurveyUSA has the numbers:Michele Bachmann(Insane &#8216;Phant): 44%Elwyn Tinklenberg* (D): 47%Bob Anderson (I) 6%. There is a 4% margin of error, so it&#8217;s still too close to call. There is only about 2% undecided, and so the 2:1 undecideds breaking against the incumbent does not mean much here. It will be close. *I know that it&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194097"}],"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=194097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}