{"id":4254,"date":"2012-11-06T12:16:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2012-11-06T12:16:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:16:19","slug":"election-day-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4254","title":{"rendered":"Election Day in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4255\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/121003_romney_obama_first_debate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/121003_romney_obama_first_debate-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Barack Obama, Barack Obama\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/121003_romney_obama_first_debate-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/121003_romney_obama_first_debate.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who will win? &#8220;Not Obama&#8221; or &#8220;Not Romney&#8221;?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While I may not be as overdosed on hope and change as I was four years ago, I&#8217;ll be rooting for Barack Obama tonight. I could write a lengthy treatise comparing policy positions and promises, but the short of it is I like the guy and I think he&#8217;d make a better President than Mitt Romney. I suspect that&#8217;s what it boils down to for most voters, so I&#8217;ll leave the deep analysis to those who follow US politics more closely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intrade.com\/v4\/markets\/contract\/?contractId=743474\">Intrade<\/a> has Obama with a 73.5% chance of winning tonight, and I&#8217;d still place my bet on the President with those odds. <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/nate-silver\/\">Nate Silver<\/a> has Obama at a 90.9% chance of re-election, and recent polls have shown momentum swinging in Obama&#8217;s favour &#8211; likely, but not necessarily, because of his perceived strong response to Hurricane Sandy.<\/p>\n<p>In the end though, the result may have little to do with gaffes, attack ads, debate performances, or even acts of God. Distilling this election down to its simplest terms, the economy isn&#8217;t great but it shows signs of life and Obama, despite a disappointing term in office, is still a better politician than Mitt Romney. Sometimes it&#8217;s best not to overthink these things.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this an open thread to discuss the results as they roll in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I may not be as overdosed on hope and change as I was four years ago, I&#8217;ll be rooting for Barack Obama tonight. I could write a lengthy treatise comparing policy positions and promises, but the short of it is I like the guy and I think he&#8217;d make a better President than Mitt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[952,114],"tags":[1291,1292],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}