{"id":1515,"date":"2008-11-04T14:42:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2008-11-04T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T21:42:09","slug":"my-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=1515","title":{"rendered":"My Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama will win easily. If McCain wins Pennsylvania, then he has a fighting chance, which is why he’s been campaigning so heavily there. But if that happens, it will be a pretty big upset, and things could get really interesting.<\/p>\n

Democrats will gain at least 5 Senate seats, possibly even more on Obama’s coattails. The big news tonight will be if the Democrats get a filibuster-proof 60 seats total, which I don’t think will happen but is certainly possible. This will be a difficult election to have polled since there are so many new voters.<\/p>\n

Democrats will pick up seats in the House, but that doesn’t really change anything.<\/p>\n

Also, check out this good piece on why exit polling sucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’re having an election party tonight! On the menu is brauts (in lieu of hot dogs), popcorn balls, and apple pie! We’ve left up the Halloween decorations, which I think is probably fitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obama will win easily. If McCain wins Pennsylvania, then he has a fighting chance, which is why he’s been campaigning so heavily there. But if that happens, it will be a pretty big upset, and things could get really interesting. Democrats will gain at least 5 Senate seats, possibly even more on Obama’s coattails. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonclassified-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}