{"id":31134,"date":"2012-11-05T09:23:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/swing-state-hell.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:32:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:32:53","slug":"swing-state-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/swing-state-hell.html","title":{"rendered":"Swing State HELL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#39;ll admit, Ohio is probably getting it a little bit worse than Colorado. \u00a0Campaign ads are only taking up half the slots on the prime time TV shows. Christmas catalogs arriving each day still barely manage to outweigh the campaign flyers. And I think there was only one presidential candidate at a time in state here this past weekend &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; though how they manage to be in four or five places simultaneously has me deeply, deeply worried. Intrigued, but worried.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103289175979046781908'>The Daily Show<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;These Ohio political ads, they sap your youth, they drain your vigor.&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/on.cc.com\/TFKAOJ\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/on.cc.com\/TFKAOJ<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/103289175979046781908\/albums\/5807360747700037905\/5807360749888885954'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-UC5nAUTR9bQ\/UJfj1VOsVMI\/AAAAAAAACs8\/G0r3JNwSvxI\/vigor.JPG' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/1kSBPeFViuj' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#39;ll admit, Ohio is probably getting it a little bit worse than Colorado. \u00a0Campaign ads are only taking up half the slots on the prime time TV shows. Christmas catalogs arriving each day still barely manage to outweigh the campaign flyers. And I think there was only one presidential candidate at a time in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/swing-state-hell.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swing State HELL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[106,99,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7061,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/04\/by_the_numbers.html","url_meta":{"origin":31134,"position":0},"title":"By the numbers","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Nov-04 9:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"Some interesting stats on the Election Season, via the NYT. 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