{"id":9361,"date":"2012-11-05T09:12:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T17:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9361"},"modified":"2012-11-05T09:12:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T17:12:55","slug":"open-thread1152012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/open-thread1152012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/5\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Race is almost run.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow I will be live blogging election night.&#160; If I can, I will keep updating the message until the winner is known.&#160; I am trying to install a chat room on the site as well, but the one I picked is not working.&#160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:39 (average 4:56).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-11-05-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"1104-Broncos31-Bengals23\" alt=\"1104-Broncos31-Bengals23\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1104-Broncos31-Bengals23.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/front.moveon.org\/mitt-romney-never-expected-someone-to-make-this-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Mitt Romney Never Expected Someone To Make This Video<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1E8S1H3y9KE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We can&#8217;t believe anything he says, but we <strong><u>KNOW<\/u><\/strong> who he represents.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/05\/us\/politics\/candidates-make-final-dash-as-race-winds-down.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Obama and Mitt Romney hunted for last-minute support on Sunday in a frenetic sprint across battleground states, even as their parties faced off in the first of what could be a growing number of legal disputes over presidential ballots and how they are counted. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">These are most important, because Republicans are desperate to steal what they cannot honorably win.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2012\/11\/early-presidential-vote-2012-where-things-stand-in-the-final-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a>: <\/font>In short, Democrats have the numerical advantage in the vote count. 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