{"id":429,"date":"2002-03-13T16:05:50","date_gmt":"2002-03-14T00:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/13\/which-flawed-election\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T23:21:43","slug":"which-flawed-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/13\/which-flawed-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Which flawed election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16429,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2002\\\/ALLPOLITICS\\\/03\\\/13\\\/Bush.news.conference\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2002\\\/ALLPOLITICS\\\/03\\\/13\\\/Bush.news.conference\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s talking about, but as I was just delivering something to another floor, Bush was on TV giving a press conference. I walked by just in time to hear him say something along the lines of &#8220;&#8230;we&#8217;ll see what we can do about this flawed election.&#8221; My first thought &#8212; with the caveat that I have no context for his statement &#8212; is he <em>really<\/em> one to talk?<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/ALLPOLITICS\/03\/13\/Bush.news.conference\/index.html\" title=\"At the time I checked it, a triumph of non-content.\">This CNN story<\/a> talks about the press conference, however, since the conference is in progress right now [2:45pm], there&#8217;s just an overview of what was expected to be talked about, but the article may be updated later.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s talking about, but as I was just delivering something to another floor, Bush was on TV giving a press conference. I walked by just in time to hear him say something along the lines of &#8216;&#8230;we&#8217;ll see what we can do about this flawed election.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}