{"id":311,"date":"2006-11-06T20:03:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T01:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/unhappy_predictions"},"modified":"2006-11-06T20:03:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T01:03:37","slug":"unhappy_predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2006\/11\/unhappy_predictions.html","title":{"rendered":"Unhappy Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The flu and some random colds are sweeping through the office. It’s like the plague hit. It’s so bad that on Friday, even I<\/em> felt like I was getting the sniffles. Fortunately nothing came of it. I think this is how my ancestors managed to survive into the modern era. We weren’t even close to being the biggest or toughest or meanest SOBs around, but we did<\/em> have a kick-ass immune system. Also we could sprint surprisingly<\/em> fast when hard-pressed.<\/p>\n

Of course, it goes without saying that whenever I start bragging about not getting sick, I get sick. As long as I keep my mouth shut, I can be fine for years<\/em>. But this blog post has pretty much guaranteed that in short order, I’ll be deathly ill for at least a week.<\/p>\n

For another dose of pre-Holiday cheer, I’m going to come right out and predict that the Republicans are going to maintain control of both the Senate and<\/em> the House. I also predict much jawing by the pundits Wednesday about “the incredible last-minute Republican surge!” Somehow the polls were 3-4 sigma out again<\/em>! Amazing!<\/em><\/p>\n

Although the prospect of the Republicans winning again is awful enough, the thing that is orders of magnitude more horrifying<\/em> is what that victory would prove, once and for all, about our electoral system. I really, really hope I’m wrong about this.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Well, I must say, it has never felt so good to be so colossally wrong. I’m just glad I didn’t have a few hundred extra bucks burning a hole in my pocket, or I would have lost it all betting at tradesports.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I also predict much jawing by the pundits Wednesday about “the incredible last-minute Republican surge!” Somehow the polls were 3-4 sigma out again<\/em>! Amazing!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}