{"id":17619,"date":"2018-08-20T17:06:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T00:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17619"},"modified":"2018-08-20T17:06:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T00:06:32","slug":"rocky-makes-his-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/08\/20\/rocky-makes-his-rounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky makes his rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, de la Fuente has run in U.S. Senate primaries in nine states without achieving success in any of them. So far in 2018, de la Fuente has been blown out in Senate races in California, Washington, Hawaii, Vermont and Minnesota. He is running in the Wyoming primary this week and in Florida next week with contests in Rhode Island and Delaware waiting next month.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

So.\u00c2\u00a0 A scorecard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

California, open primary<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 He came in 9th in a field of 14, with 2.03 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n

Washington’s open primary<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 He came in 21st place in a much more crowded field with .34 percent of the vote.\u00c2\u00a0 Does this fall off from California represent a smaller constituency in the state or just a more splintered field — with votes being taken away by “Good Space Guy”, for instance?<\/p>\n

Hawaii’s Republican primary<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Fifth in a field of seven with 11.41 percent of the vote.\u00c2\u00a0 Mind you, we’re now just talking one party, and the state’s minority party at that, so do the math and we may come down to California’s tally.<\/p>\n

Vermont’s Republican primary<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Fourth, but “write in” tallies beat him.\u00c2\u00a0 4.04 percent.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking at the bright side, that beats Bernie Sanders’s first Senate race tally.<\/p>\n

Minnesota’s Republican primary<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Fourth, with 5.88 percent.\u00c2\u00a0 (Was there any voter confusion with the second and third place candidates, Merill vs Rae Hart Anderson?)<\/p>\n

Next up tomorrow… Wyoming<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Then it’s onto Florida next week<\/a>, Delaware following<\/a>, and Rhode Island<\/a> — just to think small.<\/p>\n

Can he do anything in any of those states?\u00c2\u00a0 At least top that 11.41, maybe?\u00c2\u00a0 The races seem set in stone, but if Robert Flanders can’t get 85 percent of the vote in the primary… well, that may spell troubles in the general!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year, de la Fuente has run in U.S. Senate primaries in nine states without achieving success in any of them. So far in 2018, de la Fuente has been blown out in Senate races in California, Washington, Hawaii, Vermont and Minnesota. He is running in the Wyoming primary this week and in Florida next […]<\/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-17619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17619","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=17619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17620,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17619\/revisions\/17620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}