{"id":15466,"date":"2016-05-04T14:57:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T21:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15466"},"modified":"2016-05-04T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T22:00:19","slug":"can-keith-judd-do-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/05\/04\/can-keith-judd-do-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Keith Judd do it again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m curious to see how this one goes, actually.\u00c2\u00a0 The West Virginia Democratic Primary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the Democratic side Bernie Sanders is leading with 45% to 37% for Hillary Clinton. The 18% of voters who are undecided is unusually high and speaks to the number of registered Democrats in West Virginia who don’t really identify with the national party at this point. Among the undecideds Sanders has a 15\/77 favorability rating and Clinton’s even worse off at 12\/84 so there may end up being a decent mass of voters who just don’t vote for either of the candidates.<\/em><\/p>\n

The state that went for Stevenson 1952, Humphrey 1968, Carter 1980, and Dukakis 1988.\u00c2\u00a0 Signs that they would go for the “Democratic Socialism” in 2016?\u00c2\u00a0 But in 2008, past the point where Obama had essentially sealed the nomination, Hillary thumped Obama by 40<\/a>, and where a veritable weirdo garnered 40 percent plus of the vote against the incumbent<\/a> Obama in 2012 — from a prison cell (emulating the campaign of actual socialist Eugene Debs?)<\/p>\n

Somehow the more telling election is the 2012 than the 2008, considering the party that’s supposed to lose, Hillary, was the overwhelming victor in 2008.<\/p>\n

According to the wikipedia page, the candidates on the ballot:<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton
\n<\/a>Rocky De La Fuente
\n<\/a>Paul T. Farrell Jr.<\/a><\/em>
\nKeith Judd
\n<\/a>Martin O’Malley (stuck on the ballot)
\n<\/a>Bernie Sanders<\/em><\/p>\n

Notable that Keith Judd is again on the ballot, so it’s possible he could be advantaged by that increase name recognition, even if voters selecting don’t quite know who they’re voting for.<\/p>\n

The story-line suggests that if Donald Trump were on the ballot, he would carry a good swarth of the Democratic vote.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps come in second.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps first?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m curious to see how this one goes, actually.\u00c2\u00a0 The West Virginia Democratic Primary. On the Democratic side Bernie Sanders is leading with 45% to 37% for Hillary Clinton. The 18% of voters who are undecided is unusually high and speaks to the number of registered Democrats in West Virginia who don’t really identify with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15469,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466\/revisions\/15469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}