{"id":468,"date":"2004-11-22T11:28:05","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T16:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2004\/11\/the_noncrazy_strategy\/"},"modified":"2004-11-22T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2004-11-22T16:28:05","slug":"the_noncrazy_strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2004\/11\/the_noncrazy_strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NON-CRAZY STRATEGY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Ron Rosenbaum, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyobserver.com\/pages\/frontpage8.asp\" target=\"_blank\">New York Observer<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn Ohio, where a switch of some 68,000 votes could have changed the name of the next President, the count deserved maximum scrutiny. Especially when the combination of allegedly &#8220;spoiled&#8221; invalid ballots (93,000) and the number of &#8220;provisional&#8221; ballots (155,000)\u2014whose examination and tallying is still underway as I write\u2014could have made a substantial dent in the 135,000-vote Bush margin. I think it\u2019s unlikely it would have changed the result but, when we\u2019re told the entire American polity is about to undergo a tectonic shift because of a margin that small, we ought to know exactly what that margin was. And if that means recounts and litigation, so be it&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottendenmark.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Something&#8217;s Rotten in the State of Denmark<\/A>.<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ron Rosenbaum, in the New York Observer: In Ohio, where a switch of some 68,000 votes could have changed the name of the next President, the count deserved maximum scrutiny. Especially when the combination of allegedly &#8220;spoiled&#8221; invalid ballots (93,000) and the number of &#8220;provisional&#8221; ballots (155,000)\u2014whose examination and tallying is still underway as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}