{"id":16112,"date":"2018-06-05T23:25:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T04:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16112"},"modified":"2018-06-05T23:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T04:25:51","slug":"continuing-enthusiasm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/06\/05\/continuing-enthusiasm\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing Enthusiasm"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just received in my mail an announcement from the Democrats:<\/p>\n

Democrat Lauren Arthur just WON her special election for the Missouri Senate, flipping a Trump-won district from red to blue!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lauren’s win marks the 42nd time Democrats have flipped a Republican-held seat from red to blue since Trump took office. That’s historic \u2013 and it shows yet again that voters everywhere are REJECTING the GOP’s extremism, even in the heart of Trump country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

KMBC News<\/strong><\/em> of Missouri confirms<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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How significant is this victory? It’s hard to say. In 2016 the Republicans won<\/a> by about 23 points, and in 2012 by about 5 points. On the other hand, the turnout of 24,591 is less than 1\/3 of a normal turnout, so that suggests the results are swayed by general voter enthusiasm. I glanced at losing candidate Corlew’s website<\/a> and noted not a single mention of President Trump on the front page. My guess is that this election may have partially turned on purely local issues.<\/p>\n

Still, a Democratic flip of a seat remains a flip and should continue the energy the Democrats will need in the midterm elections in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just received in my mail an announcement from the Democrats: Democrat Lauren Arthur just WON her special election for the Missouri Senate, flipping a Trump-won district from red to blue! Lauren’s win marks the 42nd time Democrats have flipped a Republican-held seat from red to blue since Trump took \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-16112","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\/16112","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=16112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16115,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112\/revisions\/16115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}