{"id":16154,"date":"2016-12-11T13:28:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T20:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16154"},"modified":"2016-12-11T13:28:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T20:28:36","slug":"2016-elections-coming-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/12\/11\/2016-elections-coming-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 elections coming to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"

Final Senate election<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If people want somebody who is phony, a flip-flopper and has been on every side and has been everything but a Baptist preacher, they need to vote for John Kennedy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Campbell, a 69-year-old elected utility regulator, drawls in one throwback line.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wear a thousand-dollar suit to walk down a gravel road. He does,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Campbell says in another that refers to a recent Kennedy campaign ad.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like you close your eyes, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re listening to Huey Long ridicule his opponents with a one-liner that put them in their place,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Bob Mann, a Louisiana State University professor, referring to the assassinated former governor, one of the most colorful politicians in the history of Louisiana.<\/em><\/p>\n

AND<\/a><\/p>\n

It was Kennedy’s third U.S. Senate run since 2004 and this time he won in a landslide, taking 61 percent to Campbell’s 39 percent in the low-turnout election. […]
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Kennedy declared that he represents change in Washington.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I believe that our future can be better than our present, but not if we keep going in the direction the Washington insiders have taken us the last eight years,” he said. “That’s about to change, folks.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure.<\/p>\n

Georgia ends everything on Tuesday<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Then — we just have to wait a few months for some other election somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Final Senate election. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If people want somebody who is phony, a flip-flopper and has been on every side and has been everything but a Baptist preacher, they need to vote for John Kennedy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Campbell, a 69-year-old elected utility regulator, drawls in one throwback line. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wear a thousand-dollar suit to walk down a gravel […]<\/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-16154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154","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=16154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16155,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154\/revisions\/16155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}