{"id":436,"date":"2004-11-03T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=436"},"modified":"2006-10-08T08:12:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T08:12:05","slug":"434-of-four-more-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"[434] Of four more years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few networks have claimed that Ohio called for Bush. The official result should be the same.<\/p>\n<p>The race was close but this time, the Republicans convincingly maintained and improved their influence in both the White House and the Senate. I don&#8217;t think anybody could dispute that.<\/p>\n<p>To me, the result is not surprising though it is disappointing. But who would have imagined it would come down to Ohio? I certainly didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>But talking after the fact is always easy. Therefore, I&#8217;ll stop here and go to straight to bed.<\/p>\n<p>Oh shit, I can&#8217;t get the phrase four more years out of my head. This is going to be a long night. Remember Arnie shouting four more years at the Republican National Convention in New York?<\/p>\n<p>I am hearing just that. Sometimes, it hurts to know democracy works both ways. At least, Barack Obama managed to get a place in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Alrighty! Hillary Clinton for President in 2008! There is no way Darth Cheney gonna get the White House.<\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; it&#8217;s just too bad that the proposal to change the current voting system in Colorado into proportional system was struck down. In Michigan, Proposal 2 received sufficient ayes and thus, marriage is being conservatively defined. Proposal 1, which is on gambling, according to somebody from NPR, was creamed.<\/p>\n<p>pp\/s &#8211; at 0304, NPR projected Michigan to call for Kerry but that is useless with the current situation in Ohio. Boy, we should have invaded Ohio when we had the chance a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>p3\/s &#8211; well, Kerry conceded at around 1500.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/2004ElectionOhio.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/vnews\/display.v\/ART\/2004\/11\/03\/4188ceeb6d130\">Michigan Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few networks have claimed that Ohio called for Bush. The official result should be the same. The race was close but this time, the Republicans convincingly maintained and improved their influence in both the White House and the Senate. I don&#8217;t think anybody could dispute that. To me, the result is not surprising though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}