{"id":619,"date":"2008-11-04T18:30:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T02:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=619"},"modified":"2025-05-29T22:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T02:20:42","slug":"i-knew-obama-would-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/11\/i-knew-obama-would-win\/","title":{"rendered":"How I knew Obama would win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alright, let’s get this political post out of the way so I can get back to my usual stuff. Yeah, that’s right, I’m calling this at 6:30 Pacific. In fact, I called it on November 14th, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Google started hosting potential candidates<\/a>, I figured that if I went to see enough of them, I could increase my chances of seeing an actual future U.S. President in person. Hillary Clinton came in February of last year, and I saw her live in Charlie’s Caf\u00e9<\/a>. Then John McCain dropped by in May<\/a>, and I went to see him as well. You can even see me in the YouTube video when they cut to the questioners, as illustrated below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And finally, almost a year ago, Barack Obama paid a visit<\/a>. I headed over to Charlie’s just as I had done before, but he was so popular that by the time I got there, they had already closed the doors to prevent overcrowding. I ended up watching via videoconference from another room. And you know what I thought to myself, a year ago? “That guy’s going to end up being President, because I didn’t get to see him in person.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alright, let’s get this political post out of the way so I can get back to my usual stuff. Yeah, that’s right, I’m calling this at 6:30 Pacific. In fact, I called it on November 14th, 2007. When Google started hosting potential candidates, I figured that if I went to see enough of them, I … Continue reading How I knew Obama would win<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}