{"id":16245,"date":"2017-01-05T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T01:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16245"},"modified":"2017-01-05T18:22:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T01:22:23","slug":"kobach-of-kansas-and-conventional-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/01\/05\/kobach-of-kansas-and-conventional-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobach of Kansas and conventional politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly who the heck is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/opinion\/readers-opinion\/as-i-see-it\/article124344649.html\">Kobach of Kansas<\/a>, and how is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gctelegram.com\/opinion\/true-fraud-kobach-s-self-serving-crusade-needs-to-end\/article_3ff2b995-7563-5447-9508-6c28b486a400.html\">he angling for a spot in the Trump Administration<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>and why do we care when he pesters that&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/18\/us\/voter-fraud.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;_r=2\">the exception to the rule<\/a> in charging the total of a Clinton popular vote win&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>But inquiries to all 50 states (every one but Kansas responded) found no states that reported indications of widespread fraud.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A line which is getting this weird new addition in mainstream news-reporting of the phrase &#8220;without any evidence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Gets us to&#8230; the man peddling the claim that if not for rampant voting fraud, <a href=\"http:\/\/cjonline.com\/opinion\/2016-12-03\/editorial-debunking-kobach-and-trump-s-claims-about-voter-fraud\">Trump is the winner<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>of a vote that the ever acrebic Reason magazine proclaimed &#8220;Ban the popular vote&#8221; (As in&#8230; it&#8217;s a &#8220;Republic&#8221; not a Democracy, don&#8217;t even look at this.)<\/p>\n<p>So, other than that it feeds an immigration hardliner role, what&#8217;s the point of this line?<\/p>\n<p>It, I suppose, allows for a certain lack of &#8220;Magnanimous in victory&#8221; feed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don&#8217;t know what to do. Love<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Hm.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember Schwarzenegger after 2004 and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/2004\/11\/04\/schwarzenegger-calls-dems-losers.html\">Why would I listen to losers?<\/a>&#8220;\u00c2\u00a0 Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose this is a thing with celebrity politicians who get the win.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly who the heck is Kobach of Kansas, and how is he angling for a spot in the Trump Administration, and why do we care when he pesters that&#8230; the exception to the rule in charging the total of a Clinton popular vote win&#8230; But inquiries to all 50 states (every one but Kansas responded) [&hellip;]<\/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-16245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16245","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=16245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16248,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16245\/revisions\/16248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}