{"id":966,"date":"2008-09-22T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=966"},"modified":"2008-10-01T08:56:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T14:56:45","slug":"general-election-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/general-election-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"General Election 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/elephant-donkey-boxing.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"202\" height=\"214\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-969 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/elephant-donkey-boxing.jpg?resize=202%2C214&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>In just under two months it will be over.  You can a) duck and cover until the smoke clears, or b) eagerly watch how these races are unfolding.<\/p>\n<p>But, you don&#8217;t need a network talking head to monitor the gallons of ink and glowing pixels expended on the elections until November 5th&#8230;you can check on them yourself in mere seconds.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zogby.com\" target=\"_blank\">Zogby<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollster.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pollster<\/a><\/strong> are impartial data-gatherers with simple and interactive maps refreshed every time new numbers come in.<\/p>\n<p>When the fated day comes, the library receives many calls about where to go to cast a ballot.  The answer is found by typing in your address on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottcountyiowa.com\/auditor\/precinct_finder.php\" target=\"_blank\">Scott County Auditor&#8217;s site<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are the local contacts for the McCain and Obama Campaigns:<\/p>\n<p>McCain Eastern Iowa Victory Office<br \/>\n1880 E. 54th Street<br \/>\nDavenport, IA 52807<br \/>\nContact: Amanda Sebastian<br \/>\nasebastian@iowagop.org<\/p>\n<p>Scott County Obama HQ<br \/>\n901 E. Kimberly St<br \/>\nDavenport, IA 52807<br \/>\n563-386-1721<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just under two months it will be over. You can a) duck and cover until the smoke clears, or b) eagerly watch how these races are unfolding. But, you don&#8217;t need a network talking head to monitor the gallons of ink and glowing pixels expended on the elections until<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/general-election-2008\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[142,144,143,146,145],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","tag-election","tag-mccain","tag-obama","tag-polls","tag-voting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-fA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}