{"id":15353,"date":"2018-04-16T21:17:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T02:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=15353"},"modified":"2018-04-16T21:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T02:17:43","slug":"the-next-hurdle-ctd-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/04\/16\/the-next-hurdle-ctd-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Hurdle, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest on the special election for AZ-8<\/a>? Or maybe it’s just propaganda. Anyways, the Democrats sent a fund-raising letter that says,<\/p>\n

But a funny thing is happening with this race — Dr. Hiral Tipirneni, the Democratic candidate, has been campaigning hard under the radar for the past couple months. She’s sneaking up on the Republican candidate, and a poll out today has them locked in a dead heat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Would have been nice if they’d provided a link to the poll, no? In today’s era, not providing that link is malpractice, to my mind. In fact, The Hill<\/strong><\/em> has a poll<\/a> from 4 days ago:<\/p>\n

A survey from Phoenix-based polling firm OH Predictive Insights and ABC15 Arizona found former state Sen. Debbie Lesko (R) garnering 53 percent of the vote, compared to physician and first-time candidate Hiral Tipirneni (D) with 43 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But let’s stipulate that the poll mentioned in the Democrat’s fund-raising mail exists and has reasonable error bars. Arizona is a conservative state, and since redistricting in 2011, the former Republican occupant of the seat never won by less than 63% of the vote. If Dr. Tipirneni has, in fact, closed the gap to close to even in a district which went for Trump by 21 points (according to the same Hill<\/strong><\/em> article), that’s a tremendous achievement as well as a commentary on the poor reputation of the GOP<\/strong><\/em>. It’d be another lesson for a GOP<\/strong><\/em> that seems to have forgotten how to govern – or how to be a responsible political party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest on the special election for AZ-8? Or maybe it’s just propaganda. Anyways, the Democrats sent a fund-raising letter that says, But a funny thing is happening with this race — Dr. Hiral Tipirneni, the Democratic candidate, has been campaigning hard under the radar for the past couple months. \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-15353","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\/15353","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=15353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15354,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353\/revisions\/15354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}