{"id":492,"date":"2024-05-08T19:19:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T19:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:37:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:37:17","slug":"what-just-happened-john-elledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/what-just-happened-john-elledge\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat just happened\u201d – John Elledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cAs the day went on, assorted commentators dusted off their \u201cwhisper it, but Susan Hall could win\u201d takes \u2013 not necessarily because they believed them, but simply because they didn\u2019t want to be the one who\u2019d laughed off the possibility if it happened. That evening the BBC political editor herself tweeted that, \u201cNo votes have been counted yet\u2026 but it is clear tonight that the race is much much closer than some polls had suggested\u2026\u201d How any such thing could be clear when no votes had been counted was an open question. All that was clear was that a lot of people were saying the race was much closer than some polls had suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the moment we started to see any actual vote numbers, the narrative collapsed\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAs the day went on, assorted commentators dusted off their \u201cwhisper it, but Susan Hall could win\u201d takes \u2013 not necessarily because they believed them, but simply because they didn\u2019t want to be the one who\u2019d laughed off the possibility if it happened. That evening the BBC political editor herself tweeted that, \u201cNo votes have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}