{"id":987,"date":"2010-03-27T01:58:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T08:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2010-03-27T01:58:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T08:58:23","slug":"open-thread-3272010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/27\/open-thread-3272010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 3\/27\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I did pretty well, considering the time I spent asleep, because I caught up with both replying to comments and returning visits.  Today, I should stay up to date.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:07.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From McClatchy DC<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n

A strong showing by Iraq’s Sunni Muslim minority gave secular Shiite politician Ayad Allawi the narrow lead that he needed to win a landmark parliamentary election over incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, according to results released Friday by the Iraqi election commission. <\/p>\n

Allawi’s mixed-sect Iraqiya coalition won 91 of the next parliament’s 325 seats, compared with 89 for Maliki’s State of Law bloc, the core of which is his Shiite conservative Dawa Party.<\/p>\n

As Allawi supporters danced and unleashed celebratory gunfire in Baghdad and western Sunni-majority cities, a stone-faced Maliki appeared on live television to repeat his demand for a recount and assert that the tally released Friday "is not final." <\/p>\n

"We do not accept these results," Maliki said, flanked by members of his coalition.<\/p>\n

I sincerely hope that this does not turn into a new civil war there.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Red State Update<\/a>: The boys take on the aftermath of HCR passage.<\/font><\/p>\n

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What\u2019s up for the weekend?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I did pretty well, considering the time I spent asleep, because I caught up with both replying to comments and returning visits.  Today, I should stay up to date. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:07.  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From McClatchy DC: A strong showing by […]<\/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-987","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\/987","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=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}