{"id":9389,"date":"2012-11-07T07:15:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9389"},"modified":"2012-11-07T07:15:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:15:12","slug":"open-thread1172012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/07\/open-thread1172012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–11\/7\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instead of live blogging the election last night, I spent several hours with the tech support department of our HSP.  There are still problems, but I\u2019m working around them.  I\u2019m exhausted.  I\u2019m as current with replies as I can reasonably get right now.  I think I may take a day off tomorrow.  I\u2019ve earned it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:52 (average 4:54).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>In Virginia and Texas some voters waited in line for four hours. In Pennsylvania, there were inappropriate demands for official photo IDs. Recorded calls went out to residents of Florida saying misleadingly that they had until 7 p.m. \u201ctomorrow\u201d to vote. And in Ohio, there seemed to be an unusually high number of provisional ballots, causing concern that they might not all get counted. <\/p>\n

Major kudos to all the voters, who suffered from Republican attempts to deprive them of their votes, and voted anyway!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Boston Globe<\/a>: <\/font>Elizabeth Ann Warren, a fierce consumer advocate who galvanized liberals across the nation, won a decisive victory over Senator Scott Brown Tuesday, avenging the Democratic Party\u2019s bitter loss \u00adat the hands of Brown in 2010, an upset that jolted the national political landscape.<\/p>\n

Warren\/Grayson 2016!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Addicting Info<\/a>: <\/font>Trump Calls For \u2018March On Washington\u2019 For \u2018Revolution\u2019<\/p>\n

Sadly, those afflicted with InsaniTEA still insist on committing Teabuggery!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Instead of live blogging the election last night, I spent several hours with the tech support department of our HSP.  There are still problems, but I\u2019m working around them.  I\u2019m exhausted.  I\u2019m as current with replies as I can reasonably get right now.  I think I may take a day off tomorrow.  I\u2019ve earned it. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9389","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\/9389","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=9389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}