My younger sister is having one of those Big Birthdays today. She said the only thing she wants is for Barack Obama to win the presidential election. As much as I’d like to be a good brother and get her exactly what she wants, I’m not quite up to giving Abby the election result she wants.<\/p>\n
However, the BBC Web site is now predicting that Obama will probably win the electoral college vote, based on their review of five different expert projections, including Congressional Quarterly<\/em> magazine, “Real Clear Politics” Web site, “Pollster.com,” New York Times<\/em>, and Professor Larry Sabato. Full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you want to help Abby get her birthday present, you can go vote for Obama et al. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n (Happy birthday, Abs!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My younger sister is having one of those Big Birthdays today. She said the only thing she wants is for Barack Obama to win the presidential election. As much as I’d like to be a good brother and get her exactly what she wants, I’m not quite up to giving Abby the election result she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}