{"id":67,"date":"2008-11-04T19:58:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T02:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=67"},"modified":"2008-11-04T21:57:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T04:57:55","slug":"could-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Could it happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sitting here at 6:45 PST, looking at the results so far and waiting for the other shoe to drop, and beginning to think it might not. And I can’t begin to be thrilled, but I’m not feeling DOOMED anymore either.<\/p>\n

I was VERY concerned about Republicans shenanigans and the last 2 elections, but it appears that the the Dem machine was as well and has managed to keep the crap to a dull roar.<\/p>\n

And I was VERY concerned about the Bradley Effect<\/a>, but it appears that hasn’t won out either.<\/p>\n

From the beginning I was saying that if Obama was to win that he would have to win by a really big margin in order to counterbalance these two problems, but it appears SO FAR<\/strong><\/em> that the needed margin was achieved……it’s looking better than I dared to hope…..<\/p>\n

UPDATE 8:50pm<\/strong> – Wow, looks like a landslide….I’m in awe of the whole thing, and I must also note that McCain was really gracious and cool about it, good for him.<\/p>\n

What a great feeling, relief and happiness and pride in our country and it’s ideals…..and what an awesome thing for us to show the world, this is pretty great….plus I don’t have to wonder if I should say I’m Canadian in other countries any more…heh….<\/p>\n

Well, this is the announcement that America really IS America, and that because it’s America, it keeps changing and evolving and redefining itself, which of course is that exact reason that it continues confirming itself. Obama’s about to speak…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sitting here at 6:45 PST, looking at the results so far and waiting for the other shoe to drop, and beginning to think it might not. And I can’t begin to be thrilled, but I’m not feeling DOOMED anymore either. I was VERY concerned about Republicans shenanigans and the last 2 elections, but it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}