{"id":3072,"date":"2005-02-03T18:25:27","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T01:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2005\/02\/early-returns-as-expected\/"},"modified":"2005-02-03T18:25:27","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T01:25:27","slug":"early-returns-as-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/early-returns-as-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Early returns as expected"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe first ten percent of votes counted in Iraq show al Sistani’s United Iraqi Alliance comfortably ahead<\/a> of Allawi’s ticket, by about a 3-1 margin. LA Times<\/a> has the same story, but WaPo, USAT, and WSJ are silent; not as silent as Riverbend<\/a> who still hasn’t acknowledged any election took place, but silent about the numbers.<\/p>\n

Perhaps ole Riverbend’s in Marin County after all.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: OK, the WaPo has updated with an AP version of the same basic story<\/a> as the others, just a little less emphasis on dead Marines than the sensationalist LA paper.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: The Washington Post reports that overall turnout was higher than expected<\/a>. Bummer, lefties.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first ten percent of votes counted in Iraq show al Sistani’s United Iraqi Alliance comfortably ahead of Allawi’s ticket, by about a 3-1 margin. LA Times has the same story, but WaPo, USAT, and WSJ are silent; not as silent as Riverbend who still hasn’t acknowledged any election took place, but silent about the … Continue reading “Early returns as expected”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Ny","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}