{"id":24779,"date":"2016-11-17T12:06:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24779"},"modified":"2016-11-17T12:06:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:06:49","slug":"open-thread-11172016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/open-thread-11172016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 11\/17\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m happy to report that I finally slept about seven hours last night.  It wasn’t enough to repair the damage from over a week of Reich Induced Insomnia, but it’s a start.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:27 (average 6:05).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>A little over a month from now, the 538 Electoral College members will come together and throw in their \u201cvotes\u201d to choose our next president. By that time, Hillary Clinton will have somewhere around 2,000,000 more citizen votes than Donald Trump. David Wasserman over at the Cook Political Report has been keeping an up-to-date tally of the 2016 presidential election vote counts here.<\/a> As of this diary, Hillary Clinton has 61,964,263 votes while Donald Trump has 60,961,967. Using my fingers, that comes out to a 1,002,296 vote lead for the Democratic nominee. That number will continue to grow. <\/p>\n

There are a few things to take away from this fact.<\/p>\n