{"id":942,"date":"2008-11-03T21:16:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T20:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2008\/11\/03\/942\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T21:16:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T20:16:01","slug":"election-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/election-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Election night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/althouse\/295578952\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/121\/295578952_fa59330d6e_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/althouse\/295578952\/\">The election night blog party<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/althouse\/\">Ann Althouse<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found two good British guides to tomorrow&#8217;s US election night: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/us_elections\/article5003326.ece\">The Times<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/americano\/2569846\/your-election-night-viewing-guide.thtml\">Spectator Americano<\/a>.  And here&#8217;s an excellent American one on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/167186\">Newsweek<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first results will come in shortly after midnight UK time (1am Danish time).<\/p>\n<p>As for which states to watch, FiveThirtyEight has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2008\/11\/what-mccain-win-looks-like.html\">this<\/a> to say: &#8220;Also, there are some states that truly do appear to be &#8220;must-wins&#8221; for McCain. In each and every one of the 624 victory scenarios that the simulation found for him this afternoon, McCain won Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Indiana and Montana. He also picked up Ohio in 621 out of the 624 simulations, and North Carolina in 622 out of 624. If McCain drops any of those states, it&#8217;s pretty much over.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election night blog party Originally uploaded by Ann Althouse I&#8217;ve found two good British guides to tomorrow&#8217;s US election night: The Times and Spectator Americano. And here&#8217;s an excellent American one on Newsweek The first results will come in shortly after midnight UK time (1am Danish time). As for which states to watch, FiveThirtyEight has this to say: &#8220;Also, there are some states that truly do appear to be &#8220;must-wins&#8221; for McCain. In each and every one of the 624 victory scenarios that the simulation found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,101,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denmark","category-election","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}