{"id":5081,"date":"2008-11-01T04:50:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/election-story\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T04:50:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T11:50:12","slug":"election-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/01\/election-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis little gem is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2008\/10\/on-road-western-pennsylvania.html\">FiveThirtyEight.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So a canvasser goes to a woman&#8217;s door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she&#8217;s planning to vote for. She isn&#8217;t sure, has to ask her husband who she&#8217;s voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, &#8220;We&#8217;re votin&#8217; for the n***er!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Woman turns back to canvasser, and says brightly and matter of factly: &#8220;We&#8217;re voting for the n***er.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this economy, racism is officially a luxury. How is John McCain going to win if he can&#8217;t win those voters?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I surmise that Tuesday night&#8217;s election night coverage isn&#8217;t going to take very long.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little gem is from FiveThirtyEight.com So a canvasser goes to a woman&#8217;s door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she&#8217;s planning to vote for. She isn&#8217;t sure, has to ask her husband who she&#8217;s voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, &#8220;We&#8217;re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/01\/election-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Election Story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-5081","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-1jX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","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=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}