{"id":17146,"date":"2018-03-15T15:40:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T22:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17146"},"modified":"2018-03-15T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T22:42:05","slug":"a-very-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/03\/15\/a-very-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"a very special election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lamb shocks Saccone to win a district for the Democrats that Trump carried by 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; a resounding victory of about 300 votes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; the libertarian party candidate won more than those votes, for what it&#8217;s worth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and both parties pour money money money into a race for a congressional seat that is about to be redrawn out of existence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; This race result itself is null.\u00c2\u00a0 The election results in just about nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; good for Lamb, I suppose, in that he can now find a safer seat, and won&#8217;t have to be dragged down in this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Lamb, who ran promising not to vote for Pelosi for speaker (I suppose there&#8217;s to be a Harold Ford \/ Heath Schuler out there he&#8217;ll be voting for?) and who ran by firing off an AR-15 to assert that, no, students walking out or not, he&#8217;s not going to take your gun away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s okay, because the Democratic Party doesn&#8217;t need to focus as of yet&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; Reminds me, though.\u00c2\u00a0 You hear about the New Zealand diplomat flummoxed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/14\/world\/asia\/new-zealand-diplomat-us-democrats.html\">by the yell out for a &#8220;Bernie Sanders \/ Elizabeth Warren&#8221; ticket<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Surely that would win somewhere.\u00c2\u00a0 Just not in this Pennsylvania district.\u00c2\u00a0 (Oh.\u00c2\u00a0 Wait.\u00c2\u00a0 Sanders won over Northern Vermont, or something&#8230; never firing an AR-15 but sticking around long enough on that account anyways.\u00c2\u00a0 Warren is going to talk incessantly about her Oklahoma roots.)<\/p>\n<p>And if New Zealand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deputy high commissioner to the United States has any better ideas for options, she didn&#8217;t seem to suggest whom&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton has let it be known that it&#8217;s not her&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2018\/03\/clinton\/555563\/\">but we already knew that<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamb shocks Saccone to win a district for the Democrats that Trump carried by 20 points. &#8230; a resounding victory of about 300 votes&#8230; &#8230; the libertarian party candidate won more than those votes, for what it&#8217;s worth&#8230; &#8230; and both parties pour money money money into a race for a congressional seat that is [&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-17146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146","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=17146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17148,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146\/revisions\/17148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}