{"id":14900,"date":"2010-11-01T15:39:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T20:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14900"},"modified":"2010-11-01T15:39:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T20:39:58","slug":"the-social-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14900","title":{"rendered":"The Social Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYTimes has a little web toy tracking Twitter traffic for various candidates over the past stretch of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>And if traffic is the measure of Minnesota&#8217;s race, then Tom Emmer wins big. \u00a0Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s snapshot:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1406\/5136458133_62000a7bba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you go to the link and click Play&#8221;, you can get an animated historical record of the traffic. \u00a0Emmer has led pretty consistently. \u00a0 As of today, conservatively, it&#8217;s a good 15:1.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, elections are not decided on Twitter. \u00a0All good conservatives need to get out there and vote Emmer tomorrow. \u00a0Bring the kids. \u00a0Drive your (conservative-voting) neighbors. \u00a0(Leave the other ones at home).<\/p>\n<p>See you at the polls tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYTimes has a little web toy tracking Twitter traffic for various candidates over the past stretch of the campaign. And if traffic is the measure of Minnesota&#8217;s race, then Tom Emmer wins big. \u00a0Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s snapshot: If you go to the link and click Play&#8221;, you can get an animated historical record of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14901,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900\/revisions\/14901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}