{"id":14735,"date":"2018-03-13T11:31:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14735"},"modified":"2018-03-13T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:31:44","slug":"whopper-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/13\/whopper-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Whopper Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first in this series goes to Pennsylvania <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em> chairman Val DiGiorgio for this statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe other reason it\u2019s so tight is, you have to remember, this is a Democrat district, notwithstanding the fact that the president won this by 20 points.&#8221; <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/03\/12\/pennsylvania-republican-chairman-democrat-district-456924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Politico<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Pennsylvania%27s_18th_Congressional_District\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Ballotpedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, the last time this district was represented by a Democrat was 2000. In fact, redistricting happened in 2010, so one might argue that this district has never been represented by a Democrat &#8211; but I think the boundaries are similar prior and post, so it might be a specious assertion.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the Democrats didn&#8217;t even run a candidate 2014 and 2016, and defeated his last serious oppont 64% &#8211; 36%.<\/p>\n<p>Someone&#8217;s in a panic. Is it him or his bosses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first in this series goes to Pennsylvania GOP chairman Val DiGiorgio for this statement: \u201cThe other reason it\u2019s so tight is, you have to remember, this is a Democrat district, notwithstanding the fact that the president won this by 20 points.&#8221; [Politico] According to Ballotpedia, the last time this \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/13\/whopper-of-the-day\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14736,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14735\/revisions\/14736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}