{"id":3795,"date":"2010-09-21T17:52:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T00:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/spiffy-google-gadget\/"},"modified":"2010-09-21T17:52:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T00:52:43","slug":"spiffy-google-gadget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/spiffy-google-gadget\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiffy Google Gadget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jim Geraghty<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/campaign-spot\/247252\/googles-new-election-season-map\">NRO&#8217;s Campaign Spot<\/a> forwards this interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/intl\/en_us\/2010election\/ratings.html\">Election Year Dynamic Trend Map<\/a> from <strong>Google<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/goog-senate.jpg' alt='goog-senate.jpg' class='centered' \/><br \/>\nThis shows states senate race trending at the present time. The redder a state is the better for Republican candidates, the bluer states go to Democrats and yellow is a toss-up as of today.<\/p>\n<p>You can change the mode to senate, house or governor races. You can also change the source of polling (limited to a few liberal sources).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/intl\/en_us\/2010election\/ratings.html\">Try it yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Geraghty says, &#8220;If your map just keeps getting redder and redder, it doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean it&#8217;s broken.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Geraghty at NRO&#8217;s Campaign Spot forwards this interesting Election Year Dynamic Trend Map from Google: This shows states senate race trending at the present time.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,63,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign","category-politics","category-technology-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}