{"id":409,"date":"2007-12-30T13:55:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T18:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/30\/ecstatic\/"},"modified":"2007-12-30T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T18:55:46","slug":"ecstatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/30\/ecstatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecstatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the most recent polls, Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/\">is leading<\/a> narrowly in New Hampshire. And it&#8217;s practically a banal phrase at this point, but <em>Iowa is a crapshoot<\/em>: the &#8220;big three&#8221; (Edwards, Clinton, and Obama) are pretty much tied. Right now it looks like Edwards is leading, which people thought was unlikely. Thus I&#8217;m not too worried at the moment about Hillary&#8217;s triumphs in other places.<\/p>\n<p>But for the first time in a while, I&#8217;m feeling really <em>excited<\/em>. This could actually happen!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to get interested in the Republican primaries as well: they&#8217;re seeming pretty fragmented. Romney and Rudy both have big leads over each other in many states, but McCain and Huckabee are notable contenders in some states, too. (Somewhat humorously, at least to me, Romney has a pathetic 7% in Massachusetts, although the poll is ancient. Someone ought to do a new poll of Massachusetts voters.)<\/p>\n<p>Plans are still up in the air but I may well end up volunteering over at the Obama headquarters later today. The nation is watching us, and I don&#8217;t want to sit by idly in the process. We can do this!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the most recent polls, Obama is leading narrowly in New Hampshire. And it&#8217;s practically a banal phrase at this point, but Iowa is a crapshoot: the &#8220;big three&#8221; (Edwards, Clinton, and Obama) are pretty much tied. Right now it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/30\/ecstatic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,15,17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-links","category-humanitarianism","category-living","category-obama","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}