{"id":34201,"date":"2018-11-03T12:43:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T19:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34201"},"modified":"2018-11-03T12:43:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T19:43:27","slug":"open-thread-11-3-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/03\/open-thread-11-3-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/3\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a chilly muggy day, here at the CatBox.&#160; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day.&#160; It&#8217;s also a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; The Texans are visiting my Broncos.&#160; The game will not be televised here.&#160; I&#8217;m afraid Pat and I get to be foes for an afternoon.&#160; May the Orb shine its blessed light on your team, unless they are named after Ted Cruz&#8217; state.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 6:01 (average 8:37).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-11-03-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o5fblYb4TQU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Secret Waiver Clears Possible Donald Trump Russia Rod Rosenstein Replacement<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/o5fblYb4TQU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Frankly, Putin&#8217;s Pervert does not play close enough attention to the nuts and bolts of governance and is not bright enough to have come up with this scam on his own. He is the effect of the Republican Reich, not the cause. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Also from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sEQflLkPSi4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Barack Obama Stumps For Stacey Abrams In Georgia<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sEQflLkPSi4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I had almost forgotten what it was like to have a President! For 1 1\/2 hours of Obama campaigning in Florida, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KNLaoygXaUw\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/11\/1\/1809219\/-We-Might-Have-Just-Picked-Up-Another-Senate-Seat\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>This is a wonderful development. Green Party candidate Angela Green has just pulled out of the race and is asking her supporters to vote for Democrat Kyrsten Sinema.<\/p>\n<p>The Kyrsten Sinema\/Martha McSally race is one of the most hotly contested in the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2018\/senate\/az\/arizona_senate_mcsally_vs_sinema_vs_green-6717.html\" target=\"_blank\">RealClearPolitics<\/a> has it as a tie.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/maristpoll.marist.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/NBC-News_Marist-Poll_AZ-NOS-and-Tables_Adults-and-Registered-Voters-and-Likely-Voters_1810291243.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News\/Marist<\/a> shows Green polling at 6%. If those 6% go to Sinema, that might make this race winnable.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, Sinema\u2019s chances have just vastly improved. One thing is for certain, election night is going to be a nailbiter.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thanks and Kudos to Angela Green. If only Traitor Jill Stein had done the same in 2016 instead spouting Russian propaganda on Kremlin TV! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1103Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a chilly muggy day, here at the CatBox.&#160; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day.&#160; It&#8217;s also a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; The Texans are visiting my Broncos.&#160; The game will not be televised here.&#160; I&#8217;m afraid Pat and I get to be foes for an afternoon.&#160; May the Orb shine <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/03\/open-thread-11-3-2018\/' 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-34201","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\/34201","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=34201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}