{"id":1614,"date":"2008-02-28T08:48:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T16:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/blog-contest-update-seattle-bubble-in-dead-heat\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T14:48:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T22:48:04","slug":"blog-contest-update-seattle-bubble-in-dead-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/blog-contest-update-seattle-bubble-in-dead-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Contest Update: Seattle Bubble in Dead Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick update on <a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.metblogs.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/blarch_badness_39.phtml\" title=\"Vote for Seattle Bubble!\">the blog contest<\/a> that Seattle Bubble is in over at Metroblogging Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>As of this post, it&#8217;s a dead heat, with  Seattle Bubble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toluna.com\/polls\/51948\/Blarch_Badness_2008:_For_the_Squirrels\" title=\"Vote for Seattle Bubble!\">trailing by <em>one vote<\/em>, 924 to 925<\/a>. Many thanks to everyone who has voted so far, and special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raincityguide.com\/2008\/02\/26\/why-i-read-seattle-bubble\/\" title=\"Rain City Guide: Why I Read Seattle Bubble\">Rain City Guide<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com\/realestate\/archives\/132778.asp\" title=\"SREP: Seattle Bubble Needs Your Help!\">Seattle Real Estate Professionals<\/a> for the plugs.<\/p>\n<p>The Lookout Landing crowd seems to think that they will get a surge of votes this evening surrounding the Mariner&#8217;s first game, so we need your vote now more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re reading this on a computer that displays poll options instead of poll results over on the right sidebar, then click the little bullet next to &#8220;Seattle Bubble&#8221; and click &#8220;Vote.&#8221;  I&#8217;m talking to you too, RSS subscribers.  Take five seconds to load either <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/\" title=\"Vote for Seattle Bubble!\">Seattle Bubble<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.metblogs.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/blarch_badness_39.phtml\" title=\"Vote for Seattle Bubble!\">the contest page<\/a>, and vote for us.<\/p>\n<p>This concludes today&#8217;s episode of &#8220;Shameless Begging.&#8221;  We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Update:]<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/29\/seattle-bubble-withdraws-from-blog-contest\/\" title=\"Seattle Bubble Withdraws\">Seattle Bubble has withdrawn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick update on the blog contest that Seattle Bubble is in over at Metroblogging Seattle. As of this post, it&#8217;s a dead heat, with Seattle Bubble trailing by one vote, 924 to 925. 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