{"id":16284,"date":"2018-06-18T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T22:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16284"},"modified":"2018-06-18T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T22:25:08","slug":"he-may-not-be-excusing-roy-moores-actions-but-still-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/06\/18\/he-may-not-be-excusing-roy-moores-actions-but-still-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"He May Not Be Excusing Roy Moore\u2019s Actions, But Still\u2026, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the hubbub<\/a> about the Wisconsin special elections? Here’s what happened in the first State Senate district, courtesy<\/a> Vox<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Wisconsin Democrats just picked up a Republican-held state legislature seats in a duo of special elections on Tuesday, serving yet another wake-up call to Republicans in the state.<\/p>\n

Democrat Caleb Frostman, the former head of the Door County Economic Development Corp, won northeastern Wisconsin\u2019s First Senate District, which voted for Donald Trump by a whopping 17 points in 2016. Frostman\u2019s seat will be up for reelection again in November.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And the other? From<\/a> Ballotpedia<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

There was also a special election in\u00a0Wisconsin State Assembly District 42<\/a>\u00a0(AD 42) on June 12.[5]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Republican\u00a0Jon Plumer<\/a>\u00a0defeated Democrat\u00a0Ann Groves Lloyd<\/a>\u00a0and independent candidate\u00a0Gene Rubinstein<\/a>. Plumer received 53 percent of the vote to retain the seat for Republicans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder why Vox<\/strong><\/em> didn’t cover that, perhaps comparing the districts to see why they split. Granted, 53% is a majority of the voters, but not a large one. The Democrat won 40% of the vote, and the balance went to the Independent, who does not appear to have played much of a role in this election. A quick eyeballing of the district’s history<\/a> indicates winning 53% of the vote is less than average, but not the sort of thing to raise the alarms – the last few elections were won by Republican candidates with less than 60% of the vote.<\/p>\n

And that, more or less, satisfies my curiosity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember the hubbub about the Wisconsin special elections? Here’s what happened in the first State Senate district, courtesy Vox: Wisconsin Democrats just picked up a Republican-held state legislature seats in a duo of special elections on Tuesday, serving yet another wake-up call to Republicans in the state. Democrat Caleb Frostman, \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-16284","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\/16284","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=16284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16285,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16284\/revisions\/16285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}