{"id":3265,"date":"2010-11-03T00:20:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T07:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2010-11-03T00:20:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T07:20:51","slug":"open-thread1132010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/03\/open-thread1132010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/3\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I rested, and it\u2019s a good thing I did, because I have been live blogging throughout the time I normally sleep to bring you election results.&#160; What I do later will depend on how I feel, but right now, my eyes need toothpicks.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:53 (4:40 average).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-11-03-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/plum-line\/2010\/11\/abc_news_pulls_plug_on_andrew.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>ABC News sends over the letter that Andrew Morse, the chief of their digital division, has sent to Andrew Breitbart, pulling the plug on their much-discussed, widely-parsed-over invitation for him to join in their election night coverage.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Consumer protest does work, but only if we know who the offending company is.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/11\/02\/perriello-break-in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Last night, someone broke into a campaign office of Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) in Charlottesville, VA. According to a report the campaign filed with the Charlottesville police, someone entered the unoccupied office between 2 and 5:30 a.m. by busting in a window screen. The perpetrator then took information on polling place locations and deliberately distributed it in the wrong neighborhood, Perriello\u2019s campaign says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I can\u2019t say whether or not this made a difference in the results, but I am confident more such incidents will surface as time goes on, because the Republican Party is without honor.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"Bruce Beattie\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/bruce_beattie\/2010-11-02\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bruce Beattie\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/342178.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Vote in 2012!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I rested, and it\u2019s a good thing I did, because I have been live blogging throughout the time I normally sleep to bring you election results.&#160; What I do later will depend on how I feel, but right now, my eyes need toothpicks. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 4:53 (4:40 average).&#160; To <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/03\/open-thread1132010\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}