{"id":226,"date":"2004-10-28T10:11:08","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T10:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2004\/10\/28\/touching_you_with_a_10-foot_poll\/"},"modified":"2004-10-28T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T10:11:08","slug":"touching_you_with_a_10-foot_poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/10\/28\/touching_you_with_a_10-foot_poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Touching you with a 10-foot poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you are all no doubt aware, there is an election next Tuesday in the U.S. of A. Most Canadians I know are anxious about this election, given that when it comes to the Bush League, we waver somewhere between hysterical terror and terrified hysteria*.<br \/>\nVarious polls show a dead heat, at least once the margin of error is factored in. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/content\/login.aspx?ci=13792\">Gallup<\/a> has Bush ahead 51-46. A poll in a San Francisco paper has revealed the surprising** news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2004\/10\/28\/MNGIE9HQ6S1.DTL\">Arab Americans<\/a> are more likely to vote to Kerry. The only poll I&#8217;ve seen that shows a clear majority is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/10\/26\/voter.worries.ap\/index.html\">this<\/a> one.<br \/>\nAnyway, I figured since I can&#8217;t actually vote in this election, I&#8217;d create the illusion of participation.<br \/>\n<!-- BEGIN FREE POLL 00330134P02 CODE - Free Poll provided by www.addfreestats.com --><\/p>\n<p><!-- END FREE POLL CODE --><br \/>\n*<i>note the new, improved and essentially Billy Idol-free text. I am, however, still looking for a word, preferably an adjective, to express the very specific kind of emotions Canadians feel toward Bush. Contemptuous? Amused? Disdainful? Our-eyeballs-hurt-from-rolling-so-much? Any suggestions are welcome.<\/i><br \/>\n**<i>as in not surprising at all.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you are all no doubt aware, there is an election next Tuesday in the U.S. of A. Most Canadians I know are anxious about this election, given that when it comes to the Bush League, we waver somewhere between hysterical terror and terrified hysteria*. Various polls show a dead heat, at least once the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/10\/28\/touching_you_with_a_10-foot_poll\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Touching you with a 10-foot poll&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}