{"id":195,"date":"2004-11-03T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2004\/11\/03\/pundit-watch-2004"},"modified":"2004-11-03T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T11:39:00","slug":"pundit-watch-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/pundit-watch-2004.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Pundit Watch 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see &#8230; a familiar situation:  Candidate X has won the popular vote, but it looks like Candidate Y, due to a close election in a contested state, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">may<\/span><\/span> have a chance to win the Electoral College vote and still become President.<\/p>\n<p>What should Candidate Y do?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Concede graciously &#8212; he could never have &#8220;legitimacy&#8221; as President without winning the popular vote.<\/li>\n<li>Call out the lawyers and fight!  Don&#8217;t let a little thing like the popular vote totals get in the way of having your sorry butt warming the big chair in the Oval Office.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p> [Note: I am actually a fan of the Electoral College.]<\/p>\n<p>The real fun: people with more free time than I (probably rabble-rousing, pajama-wearing bloggers) should be checking the various punditry for whether their answers to the above question mutate from 2000 to 2004 depending on the values of X and Y.<br \/>\n<br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><\/span><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see &#8230; a familiar situation: Candidate X has won the popular vote, but it looks like Candidate Y, due to a close election in a contested state, may have a chance to win the Electoral College vote and still become President. What should Candidate Y do? Concede graciously &#8212; he could never have &#8220;legitimacy&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-39","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}