{"id":1584,"date":"2016-11-09T00:44:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T00:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2016-11-09T00:44:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T00:44:01","slug":"nbc-news-wired-house-painting-stumping-voting-jonathans-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1584","title":{"rendered":"NBC News, Wired, house painting, stumping, voting&#8230; Jonathan&#8217;s question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last week of the campaign, I was interviewed by <strong><em>NBC News<\/em> <\/strong>out of Maryland for a story they were doing on official write-ins. \u00a0A similar story about write-ins in Ohio ran in Kent State University&#8217;s online newspaper <strong><em>Wired<\/em>.<\/strong> \u00a0Our campaign was featured prominently in this. \u00a0During the days, I continued with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/making-a-living\">house painting project <\/a>(call me &#8220;populist&#8221;). \u00a0And in my free time I did some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stream\">stumping <\/a>in our local area, while also catching as many innings as possible of the World Series. \u00a0I&#8217;m an Indians fan! \u00a0Today, Election Day, I traveled across the state on Rte. 30, the Old Lincoln Highway, stumping in a number of small towns. \u00a0In Steubenville, where we recently moved, I voted &#8212; then I passed out some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/handouts\">campaign flyers<\/a> at the polling location. \u00a0[Trump and Clinton didn&#8217;t do <em>that<\/em>!] \u00a0I then headed home where our youngest son <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/jonathan\">Jonathan <\/a>asked: \u00a0&#8220;Could you win Dad?&#8221; \u00a0I told him that &#8220;,,,yeah Jonathan, I <em>could<\/em> win.&#8221; Then he suggested we say part of a Rosary. \u00a0I smiled, knowing the poll numbers, and thinking to myself: &#8216;Well, this is the only way I&#8217;m going to win <em>now<\/em>.&#8217; \u00a0But you know, it&#8217;s always good having that innocent hope, huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last week of the campaign, I was interviewed by NBC News out of Maryland for a story they were doing on official write-ins. \u00a0A similar story about write-ins in Ohio ran in Kent State University&#8217;s online newspaper Wired. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1584\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}