{"id":661,"date":"2009-04-02T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/02\/let-the-snowbirds-decide\/"},"modified":"2009-04-02T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T11:09:00","slug":"let-the-snowbirds-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/02\/let-the-snowbirds-decide\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the snowbirds decide!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naturally, a lot of talk going on about those absentee ballots in the 20th Congressional district race.  They&#8217;ll be decisive.<\/p>\n<p>(For the record:  despite some chicken little talk within the GOP, there is absolutely no evidence or even suggestion so far of vote tampering or inappropriate activity&#8230;none.)<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Elections has released some numbers, which suggest that the military component of that vote will be fairly small:  only about 10% of the ballots mailed out were sent to service-members.<\/p>\n<p>And this is key:  Only 170 out of roughly 6,300 ballots returned so far came from military members.  (More will come in before the mid-April deadline.)<\/p>\n<p>This matters because the Republican side is convinced that military voters will give them an edge.<\/p>\n<p>Which means that this race is in the hands of the snowbirds!  Think of it as another controversial Florida election!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naturally, a lot of talk going on about those absentee ballots in the 20th Congressional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[874],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}