{"id":34147,"date":"2018-10-29T13:08:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34147"},"modified":"2018-10-29T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:08:22","slug":"open-thread-10-29-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/29\/open-thread-10-29-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/29\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m running late today, because I had a meeting about moving with CCC.&#160; There is still no news.&#160; I feel very tired.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:02 (average 5:55).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-29-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1028-Broncos23-Chiefs30\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1028-Broncos23-Chiefs30\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1028-Broncos23-Chiefs30.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"80\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">No excuses.&#160; They were simply beaten by a team that played better.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5_tHLD0Nc-U\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">THE VOTING SONG &#8211; Parody<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5_tHLD0Nc-U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen Don! I would, if I could, but I voted yesterday. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cCcgxfCvuZU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: The American Social Contract<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cCcgxfCvuZU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. However, the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, rejects all five of those values. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/nate-silvers-fivethirtyeight-projects-record-number-women-will-be-elected-year\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>A new analysis by the election forecaster <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/election-update-100-women-or-more-could-be-elected-to-the-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a> found that a record number of women are projected to be elected to Congress in the midterm election cycle appropriately dubbed \u201cThe Year of the Woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poll whisperer Nate Silver&#8217;s model gives Democrats an 84 percent change of flipping the House this year, with many of those gains coming thanks to women candidates. According to the models, a record 124 women may win their elections this cycle, compared to the 107 women elected to Congress this session. As many as 100 women lead their House races, along with 24 female Senate candidates, out of 238 women running for federal office. There are currently 84 women in the House and 23 in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s Nathaniel Rakich warns that these candidates hold solid leads and have strong chances to win, but the gains are far from guaranteed. At the same time, it&#8217;s also true women&#8217;s gains could be even greater.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you think this will happen without YOUR BLUE VOTE, it won&#8217;t! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1029Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running late today, because I had a meeting about moving with CCC.&#160; There is still no news.&#160; I feel very tired. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 5:02 (average 5:55).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Religious Agony: No excuses.&#160; They were simply beaten by a team that played better. Short <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/29\/open-thread-10-29-2018\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34147","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=34147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}