{"id":599,"date":"2008-08-25T19:44:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T18:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=599"},"modified":"2008-08-25T19:44:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T18:44:35","slug":"predicting-a-vote-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Predicting a vote Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Articles like the one at Slate: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2195956\">WHERE THE ELECTIONS STAND TODAY<\/a> is a prescription for Vote Theft. Not that they are promoting theft, but by presenting &#8216;opinion&#8217; as facts, and displaying the point spread of the two Presidential candidates, McCain and Obama, as if they were very close together. They promote doubt about the real margin so should there be wide spread vote fraud, the public will not suspect it as easily.  There is a vast difference in the chances of winning.  There is currently a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intrade.com\/jsp\/intrade\/common\/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=409933&#038;z=1219689108530#\">60% chance Obama will win<\/a> against a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intrade.com\/jsp\/intrade\/common\/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=376101&#038;z=1219689241713#\"> 38% chance <\/a> McCain will win at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intrade.com\">Intrade<\/a>.  That is a 22 point advantage for Obama, not even including any indecision on the part of the public.  Intrade has had the most accurate data in this and the previous elections in the U.S. making any other prediction, propaganda, clear and simple. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Articles like the one at Slate: WHERE THE ELECTIONS STAND TODAY is a prescription for Vote Theft. Not that they are promoting theft, but by presenting &#8216;opinion&#8217; as facts, and displaying the point spread of the two Presidential candidates, McCain<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=599\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Predicting a vote Theft<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,79,73,8],"tags":[680,689,684,646,113],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-information","category-mccain","category-obama","category-politics","tag-election","tag-mccain","tag-obama","tag-politics","tag-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}