{"id":25472,"date":"2019-07-31T13:20:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T18:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=25472"},"modified":"2019-07-31T13:20:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T18:20:21","slug":"takin-care-of-the-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/07\/31\/takin-care-of-the-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Takin&#8217; Care Of The Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got around to seeing last night&#8217;s <strong><em>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/em><\/strong>, and his first guest, Jeff Daniels, I think hits the Democratic failures of 2016 on the head: Clinton did not take care of her base. He stated, unvetted by me, that some 80,000+ ballots in Michigan were cast that had &#8220;Democrats on the undercard, and blank for the President.&#8221; And that Clinton lost Michigan by roughly 11,000 votes. While the entire interview is subtly political, the overt political analysis starts around 5:25.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeff Daniels Says &quot;To Kill A Mockingbird&quot; Is A &quot;Right Hook&quot; To White Liberals\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pg2ZbALKRxI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need me to evaluate his analysis. But Daniels&#8217; analysis of why those voters, blue collar workers who&#8217;ve seen their jobs move overseas, seems dead-on, and I appreciated his remark that the most important people in the corporate hierarchy are no longer workers, but shareholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got around to seeing last night&#8217;s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and his first guest, Jeff Daniels, I think hits the Democratic failures of 2016 on the head: Clinton did not take care of her base. He stated, unvetted by me, that some 80,000+ ballots in Michigan \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/07\/31\/takin-care-of-the-base\/\"> 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-25472","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\/25472","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=25472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25473,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25472\/revisions\/25473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}