{"id":31497,"date":"2010-10-30T22:20:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T06:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=7519"},"modified":"2010-11-03T12:29:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T20:29:34","slug":"election-2010-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/30\/election-2010-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2010 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=' float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0;'  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7520\" title=\"800px-SarahPalinElon\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2010\/10\/800px-SarahPalinElon.jpg\" alt=\"800px-SarahPalinElon\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/>For Congress, I think that the breakdown will be:<\/p>\n<p>Senate &#8211; 50 Republicans, 50 Democrats<\/p>\n<p>House &#8211; 240 Republicans, 195 Democrats<\/p>\n<p>My reasoning? I just took <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.nytimes.com\/2010\/forecasts\/house\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a>&#8217;s numbers and shaded them a bit to the Republican side. There&#8217;s no point in making predictions unless you predict something novel and a bit off expectations. Additionally, since the readership here leans a little Left I am inclined to tweak you guys a bit and make the political <em>G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung<\/em> even more terrifying, though I didn&#8217;t want to push my luck and give you an implausible value which you&#8217;d reject on the face of it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit: Therealbs2002, Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Congress, I think that the breakdown will be:<br \/>\nSenate &#8211; 50 Republicans, 50 Democrats<br \/>\nHouse &#8211; 240 Republicans, 195 Democrats<br \/>\nMy reasoning? I just took FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s numbers and shaded them a bit to the Republican side. There&#8217;s no point in making predictions unless you predict something novel and a bit off expectations. Additionally, since the readership here [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31497"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31893,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31497\/revisions\/31893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}