{"id":34660,"date":"2026-11-03T18:29:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=34660"},"modified":"2026-11-05T18:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T18:30:55","slug":"and-now-the-polls-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/and-now-the-polls-close\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now&#8230;.The Polls Close!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/110326-polls1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1052\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/110326-polls1.jpg 1052w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/110326-polls1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/110326-polls1-428x281.jpg 428w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/110326-polls1-768x504.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1052px) 100vw, 1052px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are just closing out the last Big Day in this mid-term electoral process. it is a strange one with all sorts of new bells and whistles bought with the most expensive election ever financed in the Americas. They normally pass with the result expressing the voter&#8217;s mild disappointment with what they did two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We did our part and don&#8217;t expect resolution for some of the races for days. The level of emotion about this election marks a dramatic change in how the process and messaging about it has changed.<\/p>\n<p>The iranians have been muttering about conducting mass casualty attacks in unspecified locations. Mobile surface-to-air missile defenses are reported to be positioned near the President&#8217;s Mar a Lago home, only ten miles from the smoking crater where the Lear jet drove straight down from 35K Ft of altitude into the highway and the trailer park.<\/p>\n<p>Election Day. Whew. We are just getting started!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Vic Socotra<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n<p>i<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are just closing out the last Big Day in this mid-term electoral process. it is a strange one with all sorts of new bells and whistles bought with the most expensive election ever financed in the Americas. They normally pass with the result expressing the voter&#8217;s mild disappointment with what they did two years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34663,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660\/revisions\/34663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}