{"id":16763,"date":"2017-09-15T17:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T00:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16763"},"modified":"2017-09-15T17:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T00:33:35","slug":"the-alabama-senate-special-election-and-the-new-cleavages-of-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/09\/15\/the-alabama-senate-special-election-and-the-new-cleavages-of-the-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"the Alabama senate special election and the new cleavages of the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So. \u00c2\u00a0Alabama. \u00c2\u00a0A special election to fill out the term of Jeff Sessions, currently the Attorney General who was insulted by his boss President Trump but won&#8217;t let that get in the way of his policy apparatus &#8212; tackling America&#8217;s weed problem.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats have nominated &#8230; hm&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doug_Jones_(attorney)\">Doug Jones<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0won 66.12 percent in the primary. \u00c2\u00a0A sacrificial lamb, with some things to recommend him, it would seem. \u00c2\u00a0Apparently he beat out Robert F Kennedy, Jr. \u00c2\u00a0(No relation.) and a cast of a bunch of others. \u00c2\u00a0Alabama doesn&#8217;t dig the Kennedys? \u00c2\u00a0Or did Kennedy get the distant second based on his name?<\/p>\n<p>And the Republicans? \u00c2\u00a0Roy Moore beat out the incumbent appointed Luther Strange 38.87 to 32.83 percent. \u00c2\u00a0Setting up a run off primary\u00c2\u00a0on the 26th.<\/p>\n<p>Roy Moore of &#8220;Ten Commandments&#8221; fame.<\/p>\n<p>The divisions in the Republican Party pit Mitch Mcconnell and Donald Trump for the Republican Establishment backing Strange, against Steve Bannon and &#8230; Sarah Palin &#8230; stumping for Moore.<br \/>\nThe mind reels.<\/p>\n<p>Desperate for ammunition as Roy Moore rallies the faithful around the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/TheWire\/roy-moore-911-punishment-god\/2017\/09\/15\/id\/813804\/\">God punished us with 9\/11<\/a>&#8221; theme&#8230; the Establishments hits that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/roy-moore-and-how-trial-lawyers-are-infiltrating-the-republican-party\/article\/2634289\">Roy Moore is cozy with the trail lawyers<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0 Because Strange just can&#8217;t flank Moore to the right, which is &#8212; we all know &#8212; where all the energy is.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is the &#8220;right&#8221; is. \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/mobile\/index.ssf\/2017\/09\/beyond_embarrassing_why_roy_mo.html\">Know a nothing<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the polls, Moore is really far ahead or in a dead heat &#8212; with the Trump endorsement perhaps pulling Strange back into the race. \u00c2\u00a0What do you want to happen in this race? \u00c2\u00a0Probably we want Alabama to secede from the Union so we don&#8217;t have to problem ourselves about one percent of the US Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So. \u00c2\u00a0Alabama. \u00c2\u00a0A special election to fill out the term of Jeff Sessions, currently the Attorney General who was insulted by his boss President Trump but won&#8217;t let that get in the way of his policy apparatus &#8212; tackling America&#8217;s weed problem. The Democrats have nominated &#8230; hm&#8230; Doug Jones\u00c2\u00a0won 66.12 percent in the primary. [&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-16763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16763","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=16763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16764,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16763\/revisions\/16764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}