{"id":2933,"date":"2004-11-02T22:13:34","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T03:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2933.html"},"modified":"2004-11-02T22:13:34","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T03:13:34","slug":"and-as-the-clock-strikes-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/and-as-the-clock-strikes-10\/","title":{"rendered":"And as the clock strikes 10&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The networks are clearly gun shy after 2000. They&#8217;re just not touching the big battlegrounds that are still obviously competitive. A guess one fiasco was enough to make them cautious, which is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska and Utah have just been called for, you guessed it, Bush. As of now: Bush 176, Kerry 112, which is just about where everyone, on both sides, assumed we&#8217;d be at this point. Nothing whatsoever has happened up until now that gives us a hint of who&#8217;s going to win. I&#8217;m hoping good things come to those who hit &#8220;refresh&#8221; every few seconds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>By the way, there are countless sites with EV maps out there, but I&#8217;m particularly fond of <a href=\"http:\/\/network.ap.org\/dynamic\/files\/specials\/election_night_2004\/us_map_govsenhouse\/index.html?SITE=CSPANELN&#038;SECTION=POLITICS\">the C-SPAN one<\/a> because if you &#8220;hover&#8221; of the states, it&#8217;ll give you vote totals so far. Helpful stuff, in case you were interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The networks are clearly gun shy after 2000. They&#8217;re just not touching the big battlegrounds that are still obviously competitive. A guess one fiasco was enough to make them cautious, which is a good thing. Nebraska and Utah have just been called for, you guessed it, Bush. As of now: Bush 176, Kerry 112, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}