{"id":890,"date":"2004-11-02T09:08:34","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T17:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/11\/gone_votin\/"},"modified":"2004-11-02T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T17:08:34","slug":"gone_votin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/11\/gone_votin.html","title":{"rendered":"GONE VOTIN’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bookies are still giving shorter odds on
\nBush<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, which means bettors continue to favor the Ignoramus. But Kerry
\nbackers are closing the gap. There may be evidence<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> that crowd wisdom<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> under the right circumstances is smarter than
\nthe smartest, best-informed expert. But every time a long shot wins at the racetrack, there’s
\nevidence to the contrary. My bet’s on Kerry, and I’m heading out to vote — like the rest of you, I
\nhope. <\/P>
\n

Postscript:<\/STRONG> Jimmy Breslin, going naked<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, wrote a great
\nfucking column today. It’s also his last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bookies are still giving shorter odds on Bush, which means bettors continue to favor the Ignoramus. But Kerry backers are closing the gap. There may be evidence that crowd wisdom under the right circumstances is smarter than the smartest, best-informed expert. But every time a long shot wins at the racetrack, there’s evidence to […]<\/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-890","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-em","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}