{"id":17827,"date":"2018-12-03T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17827"},"modified":"2018-12-03T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T20:52:00","slug":"the-5-big-winners-and-5-big-losers-of-election-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/12\/03\/the-5-big-winners-and-5-big-losers-of-election-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 big winners and 5 big losers of Election 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

5 Winners<\/p>\n

(1)\u00c2\u00a0 The Prohibition Party.\u00c2\u00a0 The nation’s oldest third party has opened up a state party in New York, and is gearing up to tear away at the Cuomo beer guzzling machine.\u00c2\u00a0 And with the warring Old Guard passed on, it’s gearing up to a rock em sock em three way presidential nomination contest for 2020.\u00c2\u00a0 Fun times ahead.<\/p>\n

(2)\u00c2\u00a0 Zombie Dennis Hof<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 One way to beat back scandal.\u00c2\u00a0 Die.\u00c2\u00a0 Then no one can speak ill of you, and you can cruise to election.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll see if this strategy in crisis management takes off.<\/p>\n

(3)\u00c2\u00a0 The Beto O’Rourke vice Presidential caravan.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t tell if comments by various pols saying that O’Rourke’s senate bid loss benefits a possible presidential bid by not tying him to the Senate and Senate duties is a facetious commentary on modern politics or not.\u00c2\u00a0 As it were, I see comments that Beto’s loss is good for the Dems, because it removes a sure-fire loser from contention.\u00c2\u00a0 Funny that.\u00c2\u00a0 So.\u00c2\u00a0 Does this leave him veep timber?\u00c2\u00a0 Noted: Texas swung closer for the Dms than Ohio in 2016.<\/p>\n

(4)\u00c2\u00a0 Rocky De La Fuente.\u00c2\u00a0 Ran in nine Senate races<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Winning anywhere between .3 percent of the vote and 12.3 percent of the vote.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re committed to political office seeking as a hobby, might as well do it on this scale.<\/p>\n

(5)\u00c2\u00a0 Communism.\u00c2\u00a0 Fascist forces are slinging it out with antifa on the streets of Portland, as bourgioise liberals are alayed in the cross winds.\u00c2\u00a0 The fascists swing their praises for old time authoritarian regimes — Pinochet and Franco.\u00c2\u00a0 The antifas have an honest to gosh Hammer and Sickle flag, showing that… yes… Communism is on the March!<\/p>\n

5 Losers<\/p>\n

(1)\u00c2\u00a0 The Natural Law Party.\u00c2\u00a0 Ceased operation nationally in 2004, but Party Boss\u00c2\u00a0Doug Dern hands out a ballot line in Michigan for the asking<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 What do they stand for?\u00c2\u00a0 Is anyone advocating the square root of one percent of a population for a troubled area mediating for peace approach anymore?\u00c2\u00a0 Nay.\u00c2\u00a0 The party strays from its roots, and has only three candidates to show for itself.<\/p>\n

(2)\u00c2\u00a0 The Modern Whig Party.\u00c2\u00a0 David Brooks, beleaguered Never Trumper Man without a Party, pines for the days of Zachary Taylor and Henry Clay and so spotted the “Modern Whig Party” a nod of approval in an August column.\u00c2\u00a0 The party failed to capitalize, running as many candidates for office as their nineteenth century historical inspiration did: zero.\u00c2\u00a0 We see what happens in a year and two years.<\/p>\n

(3)\u00c2\u00a0 The Lyndon Larouche Movement.\u00c2\u00a0 They ran two candidates, the flagship being the most successful candidate of the Obama eara — Kesha Rogers — who acted the irritant to the Texas Democratic Party by winning two congressional nominations and forcing a run off for Senate nomination.\u00c2\u00a0 In 2018, the party got to ignore her completely.\u00c2\u00a0 Oddly, the lesser candidate, from the org’s perspective, did better in his rural climes — and against more overlapping competition that could dip into pro-Trump support.<\/p>\n

(4)\u00c2\u00a0 Taylor Swift.\u00c2\u00a0 Her political neutrality makes for good business sense.\u00c2\u00a0 Want everyone to buy her music, right?\u00c2\u00a0 But the odd thing about endorsing Phil Bredesen — the Democratic candidate his Republican supporters had slyly called “The Best Republican Governor Tennessee ever had” — on progressive grounds is… it does clash against Bredesen’s political posiitioning.\u00c2\u00a0 On the plus side, she lost her weird “White Nationalist” supporters who had embraced her, deciding to read white pride into her lyrics off of her political non stances and a couple over sensitive politically correct criticisms… maybe they’re now having to go over to Kanye West?<\/p>\n

(5)\u00c2\u00a0 Ann Coulter’s love affair with Kansas.\u00c2\u00a0 After Kansas elected a Democrat for governor, she tweeted “Kansas — you are dead to me.”\u00c2\u00a0 Poses some odd questions — Was Kansas ever really alive for Ann Coulter, and if so — why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5 Winners (1)\u00c2\u00a0 The Prohibition Party.\u00c2\u00a0 The nation’s oldest third party has opened up a state party in New York, and is gearing up to tear away at the Cuomo beer guzzling machine.\u00c2\u00a0 And with the warring Old Guard passed on, it’s gearing up to a rock em sock em three way presidential nomination contest […]<\/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-17827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17827","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=17827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17828,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17827\/revisions\/17828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}