{"id":31111,"date":"2020-11-05T17:05:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T23:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31111"},"modified":"2020-11-05T17:05:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T23:05:03","slug":"getting-too-hung-up-on-specifics-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/11\/05\/getting-too-hung-up-on-specifics-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Too Hung Up On Specifics, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those readers that remember <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/07\/20\/getting-too-hung-up-on-specifics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my remarks on the Mississippi electoral system<\/a>, it looks like a referendum change has passed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mississippi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elections.ap.org\/dailykos\/results\/2020-11-03\/state\/MS\/race\/I\/raceid\/27230\">voted 78-22 for Measure 2<\/a>, which repeals\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2020\/6\/30\/1957266\/-Mississippi-could-repeal-Jim-Crow-election-law-in-fall-but-replacement-could-still-harm-Black-voters\">a provision<\/a>\u00a0of the state&#8217;s Jim Crow-era constitution that deliberately penalizes Black voters and the Democrats they support in elections for statewide office. The new law requires candidates for posts like governor or attorney general to take a majority of the vote in the general election in order to win outright; if no one hits this threshold, a runoff would take place between the top-two vote-getters.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2020\/11\/5\/1992888\/-Morning-Digest-Georgia-could-see-dual-runoffs-and-keep-narrow-door-open-for-Democrats-to-win-Senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Daily Kos<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That sounds a helluva lot more fair than the old one. And, yes, I was wrong &#8211; the citizenry did manage to make the change, overwhelmingly. Yay for them! Shame on me for doubting them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those readers that remember my remarks on the Mississippi electoral system, it looks like a referendum change has passed: Mississippi\u00a0voted 78-22 for Measure 2, which repeals\u00a0a provision\u00a0of the state&#8217;s Jim Crow-era constitution that deliberately penalizes Black voters and the Democrats they support in elections for statewide office. The new \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/11\/05\/getting-too-hung-up-on-specifics-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-31111","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\/31111","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=31111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31112,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31111\/revisions\/31112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}