There was this special election held in\u00c2\u00a0Louisiana which resulted in a Democratic victory in a deeply Republican district.\u00c2\u00a0 It is worth a shrug, and it does show that the “Liberal Blogosphere” is more partisan than it is ideological, for good or bad, in its celebration of such a thing, despite many pleadings\u00c2\u00a0of “moonbattery” from the conservative blogosphere\u00c2\u00a0in referencing your dailykoses and et al — the man preparing himself for service in the “Blue Dog Democrats” coalition of congress critters we are going to look over to scan votes for and see on the wrong side of that “Lib \/ Con” (whatever that means)\u00c2\u00a0ledger with frequency.<\/p>\n
He won despite being aligned with Obama who was aligned with Wright.\u00c2\u00a0 A harbinger of the future?\u00c2\u00a0 To answer that question demands a precise explanation of what is being harbinged.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, a bit of a disturbing trends.\u00c2\u00a0 According to this<\/a>, one of the two people competing for the Democratic nomination in Nebraska is a Republican.\u00c2\u00a0 Which might simply be an anomolie, except for the fact that one of the people who might end up with the Democratic nomination in Georgis is also a Republican<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Go figure.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe we can go ahead and extrapulate the trend<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There was this special election held in\u00c2\u00a0Louisiana which resulted in a Democratic victory in a deeply Republican district.\u00c2\u00a0 It is worth a shrug, and it does show that the “Liberal Blogosphere” is more partisan than it is ideological, for good or bad, in its celebration of such a thing, despite many pleadings\u00c2\u00a0of “moonbattery” from the […]<\/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-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","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=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}