{"id":11158,"date":"2008-02-19T19:14:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T01:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=11158"},"modified":"2008-02-19T19:14:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T01:14:42","slug":"obama-gaining-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=11158","title":{"rendered":"Obama Gaining [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/104428\/Obama-Gaining-Among-MiddleAged-Women-Hispanics.aspx\">Among &#8220;Wideasses&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.memeorandum.com\/#a080219p177\">Early returns<\/a>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0show Wisconsin breaking for Obama by a wipeout 60 to 40 margin. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Speaking as a Wisconsin native, I can assure you that the Wideass population of my home state is quite high, so these results don&#8217;t surprise me at all. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Many Wisconsin grocery stores have expanded to 4 lanes to deal with the congestion issues.<\/p>\n<p>Why, you may ask, has Wisconsin gone so heavily for Barack? \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0There are a number of different explanations available, but foremost among these is Wisconsin paranoia.<\/p>\n<p>In short, in order to preserve the desperate peculiarities of Wisconsinism, Wisconsinites tend to vote for whomever they feel least likely to be able to enact his or her sweeping agenda of reforms for the country. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0God only knows what might happen to our native diet were someone with a passable legislative agenda to assume the presidency.You think I&#8217;m being funny?  You haven&#8217;t read enough Iowa Hawk.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Lovely Liz Stephans alertWere you aware there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/blogs\/thebcast.wordpress.com\">B-Cast website<\/a>?  I wasn&#8217;t, until today.  If you knew and didn&#8217;t tell me . . . bastard!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE2: Cap&#8217;n Ed doesn&#8217;t get the Wisconsin thing.  It&#8217;s always been a completely open primary, in the openest sense.  And that, to the 500, Euchre and Sheepshead-playing population of Wisconsin means opportunities for ruffing and schneids.  So, you prognosticators better watch out . . . because the plump hausfraus who used to cheerlead for the Green Bay Packers are out to wreak their revenge on the nation that spurned them.  Fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among &#8220;Wideasses&#8221;. Early returns\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0show Wisconsin breaking for Obama by a wipeout 60 to 40 margin. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Speaking as a Wisconsin native, I can assure you that the Wideass population of my home state is quite high, so these results don&#8217;t surprise me at all. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Many Wisconsin grocery stores have expanded to 4 lanes to deal with the congestion issues. Why, you may ask, has Wisconsin gone so heavily for Barack? \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0There<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=11158\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}