{"id":1647,"date":"2010-10-20T15:11:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T23:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2010-10-20T15:11:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T23:11:51","slug":"republican-victory-metaphors-your-official-election-day-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=1647","title":{"rendered":"Republican Victory Metaphors: Your Official Election Day Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone’s speculating about the scale of the coming Republican victory in the midterm elections. Will they win 39 seats in the House of Representatives? 45? 60? 80?<\/p>\n

And in the confusion, everyone’s testing out different possible metaphors to describe the political and cultural effect of the Republican win, depending on its size. Will it be a “massacre”? A “tsunami”? A “generational shift”?<\/p>\n

The time has come to get this all straightened out. I hereby present The Official Guide to…<\/p>\n

 
\nRepublican 2010 Victory Metaphors<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\nIf Republicans win…<\/b>\n<\/td>\n\n    The correct metaphor to use is…    <\/b>\n<\/td>\n\n \n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n1 – 38<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n   seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    blip<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n39<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\nseats\n<\/td>\n		\n    wave<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tr>\n
\n40 – 41<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    a good shellacking<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tr>\n
\n42 – 45<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    steamroller<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tr>\n
\n46 – 47<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    earthquake<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tr>\n
\n48 – 49<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    The Big Payback<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n50 – 52<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    asskicking<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n53 – 56<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    1994 all over again<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n57 – 59<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    Tea Party Jamboree<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\"\"\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n60 – 62<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    wipeout<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n63 – 64<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    a thumpin’<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n65 – 66<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    stampede<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n67 – 69<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    massacre<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n70 – 71<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    juggernaut<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n72 – 75<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    1894 all over again<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n76 – 77<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    revolution<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n78 – 79<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    The Perfect Storm<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n80<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\nseats\n<\/td>\n		\n    tectonic rupture<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n81 – 84<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    tsunami<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n85 – 86<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    The Great Refudiation<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n87 – 89<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    meteor strike<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n90 – 91<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    generational shift<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n92 – 94<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    Party Like It’s 1773<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\"\"<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n95 – 97<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    Doomsday<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n98 – 99<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n    seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    Armageddon<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n100<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\nseats\n<\/td>\n		\n    The Apocalypse<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n101 – 116<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\n       seats\n<\/td>\n		\n    mass extinction event<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n117+<\/b><\/big><\/big>
\nseats\n<\/td>\n		\n    The End<\/b><\/big><\/font>    \n<\/td>\n\n\"\"\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone’s speculating about the scale of the coming Republican victory in the midterm elections. Will they win 39 seats in the House of Representatives? 45? 60? 80? And in the confusion, everyone’s testing out different possible metaphors to describe the political and cultural effect of the Republican win, depending on its size. Will it be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}