{"id":18988,"date":"2019-01-19T17:52:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T23:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18988"},"modified":"2019-01-19T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T23:52:34","slug":"shooting-ourselves-in-the-hand-the-foot-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/01\/19\/shooting-ourselves-in-the-hand-the-foot-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Ourselves In The Hand, The Foot \u2026, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerning my <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/01\/07\/shooting-ourselves-in-the-hand-the-foot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismay<\/a> with regard to the <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em> report of some Democratic organization trying to use underhanded social media tactics, and the possible repercussions, a reader remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of course, the GOP hardcore already believes all of this and worse about the Democrats, so just how much black goo staining is occurring is highly open to question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t think there is any delusions that the GOP hardcore is open to any persuasion. The group of importance are the independents, who make up just about 40% of the electorate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GallupPresidentialApproval-1-15-2019.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18989\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GallupPresidentialApproval-1-15-2019.jpg?resize=800%2C277&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GallupPresidentialApproval-1-15-2019.jpg?w=1134&amp;ssl=1 1134w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GallupPresidentialApproval-1-15-2019.jpg?resize=300%2C104&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GallupPresidentialApproval-1-15-2019.jpg?resize=768%2C266&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GallupPresidentialApproval-1-15-2019.jpg?resize=1024%2C355&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GallupPresidentialApproval-1-15-2019.jpg?resize=250%2C87&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GallupPresidentialApproval-1-15-2019.jpg?resize=150%2C52&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The independents are the one that are fueling Presidential approval \/ disapproval polls such as thins one, showing Trump approval at an abysmal 37%. If they become disillusioned with the Democrats, perhaps they sit the next one out, and the Republicans, in all their third-rater glory, have a much stronger chance at both the state and federal levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerning my dismay with regard to the WaPo report of some Democratic organization trying to use underhanded social media tactics, and the possible repercussions, a reader remarks: Of course, the GOP hardcore already believes all of this and worse about the Democrats, so just how much black goo staining is \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/01\/19\/shooting-ourselves-in-the-hand-the-foot-ctd\/\"> 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-18988","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\/18988","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=18988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18990,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18988\/revisions\/18990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}