{"id":861,"date":"2004-10-19T03:06:17","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T10:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/10\/harrys_poll\/"},"modified":"2015-11-08T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T15:22:44","slug":"harrys_poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/10\/harrys_poll.html","title":{"rendered":"HARRY&#8217;S POLL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><A class=inline href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsbestbars.com\/city\/Paris\/HarrysBar.asp\" target='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Harry&#8217;s Bar<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> in Paris, famous as an American tourist hangout and&nbsp;for sponsoring the <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.anecdotage.com\/index.php?aid=14727\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>International Imitation Hemingway Contest<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>,&nbsp;also runs a Straw Vote for president.&nbsp;It began in 1924, and it&#8217;s&nbsp;supposed to have been wrong only once &#8212;&nbsp;in 1976, when Carter beat Ford. If this year&#8217;s vote holds up, John Kerry will be&nbsp;the&nbsp;next president.&nbsp;(The tally was&nbsp;54 percent for Kerry, 46 percent for the Ignoramus in Chief. Voting began on Oct. 2 and&nbsp;was open to anyone with an American passport.) How many voters were there? I have no idea. But Kerry won by a larger margin at the <A class=inlne\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.cologne.intercontinental.com\/colha\/restaurant_03.html\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Cologne clone<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> of Harry&#8217;s Bar, 78 percent to 22 percent. Let&#8217;s raise a toast to Harry<FONT face=Arial>,<\/FONT>&nbsp;who died in 1958,&nbsp;for&nbsp;the glimmer of hope he&#8217;s given us.<\/P><B>Postscript:<\/B> I never thought I&#8217;d say this: Let&#8217;s raise a <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/10\/19\/schwarzenegger.stem.ap\/index.html\"\ntarget='new\"' <b><FONT color=#003399><STRONG>toast to Ahnold<\/B><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>, too, for&nbsp;backing stem-cell research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry&#8217;s Bar in Paris, famous as an American tourist hangout and&nbsp;for sponsoring the International Imitation Hemingway Contest,&nbsp;also runs a Straw Vote for president.&nbsp;It began in 1924, and it&#8217;s&nbsp;supposed to have been wrong only once &#8212;&nbsp;in 1976, when Carter beat Ford. If this year&#8217;s vote holds up, John Kerry will be&nbsp;the&nbsp;next president.&nbsp;(The tally was&nbsp;54 percent for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-dT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18374,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/18374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}