{"id":931,"date":"2008-11-21T22:58:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T02:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2017-08-18T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:19:39","slug":"ties-and-the-tying-tiers-who-are-tied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/931","title":{"rendered":"Ties (and the tying tiers who are tied)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Electoral-Vote.com<\/a>, we find a website with pictures of some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/features\/2008\/11\/19_challenged_ballots\/\" target=\"_blank\">disputed ballots<\/a> in the Minnesota Senate recount. You can also vote on whether each ballot should count, though it&#8217;s just for fun. If Franken wins the recount, the eyes of the nation will be on the December 2 runoff election in Georgia, to see if the Democrats will wind up with the 60 seats they need to block a Republican filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>In the presidential election, Missouri has finally reached a decision. The state has been won by John McCain, bringing the final electoral college count (barring any <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faithless_elector\" target=\"_blank\">faithless electors<\/a>) to 365-173. And in Iowa County, Iowa, we find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazetteonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20081106\/NEWS\/711069951\/1006\" target=\"_blank\">an exact tie<\/a> between Obama and McCain, with 4,173 votes each.<\/p>\n<p>You see? You <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/835\">should have voted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Electoral-Vote.com, we find a website with pictures of some of the disputed ballots in the Minnesota Senate recount. You can also vote on whether each ballot should count, though it&#8217;s just for fun. If Franken wins the recount, the eyes of the nation will be on the December 2 runoff election in Georgia, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,45,9,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps","category-math","category-politics","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6358,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/6358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}