{"id":1501,"date":"2007-10-24T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T17:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2007-10-24T12:01:05","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T17:01:05","slug":"to-know-me-is-to-vote-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1501","title":{"rendered":"To Know Me Is To Vote For Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, commenter Angryclown <a href=\"#comment-18014\">noted<\/a> in my piece on\u00a0 my travels:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Respectively, Mitch\u2019s imagined Berg for America 2008 electoral map and the nations that would continue to have diplomatic relations with the U.S. under a Berg administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I thought &#8211; I <em>do <\/em>tend to make a decent first impression on people.\u00a0 So let&#8217;s say that that first impression COULD be turned into electoral gold; that if I run for president, every state I&#8217;ve ever visited would fall for my charms and give me an electoral plurality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/americanresearchgroup.com\/ev\/\">counted &#8217;em up<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Mitch: 315<\/p>\n<p>Non-Mitch: 223<\/p>\n<p>I think the GOP&#8217;s choice is clear.<\/p>\n<p>(Or, if we don&#8217;t count Nebraska, which I merely drove <em>through<\/em>, you can transfer five points.\u00a0 But I think the &#8216;huskers are pretty sharp people, so let&#8217;s not go crazy here&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, commenter Angryclown noted in my piece on\u00a0 my travels: \u00a0Respectively, Mitch\u2019s imagined Berg for America 2008 electoral map and the nations that would continue to have diplomatic relations with the U.S. under a Berg administration. So I thought &#8211; I do tend to make a decent first impression on people.\u00a0 So let&#8217;s say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","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=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}