{"id":34791,"date":"2016-12-19T17:03:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T01:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=34791"},"modified":"2016-12-19T17:03:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T01:03:43","slug":"blahblahblah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=34791","title":{"rendered":"BlahBlahBlah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Silver had<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/democrats-need-to-win-elections-not-flip-electors\/\"> this little essay<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0this morning called: &#8220;Democrats Need to Win Elections, Not Flip Electors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>1) First off, false dichotomy. Regardless of the merits of trying to flip the Electoral College, Democrats are not going to stop trying to win elections. It&#8217;s not like there&#8217;s a huge, expensive effort to flip electors that is sucking resources from the 2018 campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>2) Regarding the merits, the fact that Hillz won the popular vote by suck a large margin means the EC stinks on ice, Nate, so it&#8217;s not the worst thing in the world to say, &#8220;You know, if this thing actually worked as intended electors would be flipping like Olympic gymnasts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3) 538 uses Facebook for comments, and I don&#8217;t do Facebook, and if I did, I wouldn&#8217;t do political comments on Facebook (those people are cray). So you are stuck reading this here instead. Sorry?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Silver had this little essay\u00a0\u00a0this morning called: &#8220;Democrats Need to Win Elections, Not Flip Electors.&#8221; 1) First off, false dichotomy. Regardless of the merits of trying to flip the Electoral College, Democrats are not going to stop trying to win elections. It&#8217;s not like there&#8217;s a huge, expensive effort to flip electors that is [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34792,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34791\/revisions\/34792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}