{"id":7024,"date":"2014-08-04T15:55:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T21:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7024"},"modified":"2014-08-04T15:55:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T21:55:30","slug":"nate-silver-gop-has-60-percent-chance-of-winning-the-senate-barf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/nate-silver-gop-has-60-percent-chance-of-winning-the-senate-barf\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate Silver: GOP Has 60 Percent Chance Of Winning The Senate (BARF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t let it happen. VOTE. Get excited, get out and VOTE. Shut the fools down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/nate-silver-gop-60-percent-change-winning-senate\">Nate Silver: GOP Has 60 Percent Chance Of Winning The Senate<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Summing the probabilities of each race yields an estimate of 51 seats for Republicans. That makes them very slight favorites \u2014 perhaps somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-40 \u2014 to take control of the Senate, but also doesn&#8217;t leave them much room for error,&#8221; Silver wrote at <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/republican-gop-senate-forecast\/\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a> on Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/nate-silver-gop-60-percent-change-winning-senate\">Nate Silver: GOP Has 60 Percent Chance Of Winning The Senate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t let it happen. VOTE. Get excited, get out and VOTE. Shut the fools down. Nate Silver: GOP Has 60 Percent Chance Of Winning The Senate &#8220;Summing the probabilities of each race yields an estimate of 51 seats for Republicans. That makes them very slight favorites \u2014 perhaps somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-40 \u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/nate-silver-gop-has-60-percent-chance-of-winning-the-senate-barf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nate Silver: GOP Has 60 Percent Chance Of Winning The Senate (BARF)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7025,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024\/revisions\/7025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}