{"id":21225,"date":"2020-11-03T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21225"},"modified":"2020-11-03T14:49:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:49:23","slug":"countdown-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21225","title":{"rendered":"Countdown&#8230;election day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;the day that we&#8217;ve all been looking forward to and dreading is here and my stress level is still at 11 and that is part of the reason I&#8217;m late here today&#8230;needed to take advantage of the weather and get 26 miles in on the bike and I am beat&#8230;but I&#8217;m here so let&#8217;s get started&#8230;okay, right up front, I hope all of you have voted or plan to today&#8230;we need all hands on deck to make sure the orange tumor that has infested our country for the past four years is gone in January&#8230;and while I am cautiously optimistic&#8230;.okay, I hate that phrase, have read it over a hundred times today, it does nothing to describe the tension we all are feeling&#8230;one good bit of news is that the idiot boy&#8217;s ground game in PA really doesn&#8217;t exist&#8230;it appears that Brad Parscale, who was supposed to do it before getting fired, just took the money and ran&#8230;.and many polling place in red areas are dead with no lines to speak of&#8230;.oh, we can only hope since we are almost 700K ahead in mail in ballots and that may carry us to a win there&#8230;.turnout is ridiculous across the country and may reach 70+ percent which is almost 10% higher than in 2016&#8230;whether that favors us I&#8217;m not sure and I think the analysis will have to wait until after the election&#8230;one thing that is happening is the turnout of younger folks is up 20% from 2016 and they appear to be pretty darn motivated&#8230;so, let&#8217;s keep them motivated by giving them a seat at the table to understand what they want the country to look like and what it is government can do to make their lives better&#8230;.we should know by 9 pm or so who won Florida and Georgia&#8230;if Joe takes either one it&#8217;s over for idiot boy, if he takes both, it&#8217;s going to be a landslide and maybe almost 400 EV&#8217;s&#8230;I do know that after I finish this, I&#8217;m tuning out to watch soccer and then catch up on some shows tonight instead of watching the news&#8230;I may check on the results before I go to bed since that would be as good as a sleeping pill to me&#8230;and I am going to have martinis tonight&#8230;.fingers crossed&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;the day that we&#8217;ve all been looking forward to and dreading is here and my stress level is still at 11 and that is part of the reason I&#8217;m late here today&#8230;needed to take advantage of the weather and get 26 miles in on the bike and I am beat&#8230;but I&#8217;m here so let&#8217;s get &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21225\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Countdown&#8230;election day&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2287],"class_list":["post-21225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2020-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21226,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21225\/revisions\/21226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}