{"id":3941,"date":"2009-01-07T10:08:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T15:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2009-01-07T10:08:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T15:08:27","slug":"figure-it-this-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3941","title":{"rendered":"Figure It This Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DFL petty poobah &#8211; a former DFL state legislator, in fact &#8211; on a state politics discussion forum:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Minnesotans, we can be proud of our election system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take 100 random Minnesotans off the street.<\/p>\n<p>Ask them &#8220;To the best of your knowledge, how <em>did\u00a0 <\/em>the canvassing board and the secretary of state arrive at the conclusion that Norm Colemn&#8217;s 200-odd vote margin of victory on election night is now a 200-odd vote Franken lead?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Take the correct answers, and express them as a percentage.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how proud we can be.<\/p>\n<p>Any bets?<\/p>\n<p>Hint:\u00a0 I, who follow this stuff as a political junkie, have no idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DFL petty poobah &#8211; a former DFL state legislator, in fact &#8211; on a state politics discussion forum: As Minnesotans, we can be proud of our election system. Take 100 random Minnesotans off the street. Ask them &#8220;To the best of your knowledge, how did\u00a0 the canvassing board and the secretary of state arrive at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","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=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}