{"id":1531,"date":"2004-11-03T19:16:19","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T00:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/counter-spinning-the-mandate\/"},"modified":"2004-11-03T19:16:19","modified_gmt":"2004-11-04T00:16:19","slug":"counter-spinning-the-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/counter-spinning-the-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"counter-spinning the mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve heard the &#8220;bush was elected with more votes than any president in history&#8221; line just a few too many times today.  nice statistic.  nice spin to try to establish  mandate from a 51% return.  nice try.  so i&#8217;m going to spin that top the other way.<\/p>\n<p>in the 2000 race:<br \/>\nbush: 50, 461,092<br \/>\ngore: 50,994,086<br \/>\nnader: 2,882,728<br \/>\nother:  1,039,754<br \/>\ngore + nader + other:  54,916,568<\/p>\n<p>in the 2004 race:<br \/>\nbush:  59,056,036<br \/>\nkerry:  55,464,322<br \/>\nnader:  394,840<br \/>\nkerry + nader:  55,859,162<\/p>\n<p>so, the counter-spin is&#8230;.?  bush was voted <em>against<\/em> by more people than any elected president in history too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve heard the &#8220;bush was elected with more votes than any president in history&#8221; line just a few too many times today. nice statistic. nice spin to try to establish mandate from a 51% return. nice try. so i&#8217;m going to spin that top the other way. in the 2000 race: bush: 50, 461,092 gore: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}