{"id":33858,"date":"2021-08-04T11:35:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T16:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33858"},"modified":"2021-08-04T11:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T16:35:44","slug":"political-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/04\/political-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Jake Ellzey (R-TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/07\/30\/leverage-points\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defeating<\/a> Susan Wright (R-TX) in a special election for the House of Representatives last week? Wright had the Trump endorsement, and Ellzey won easily. Now consider the primary for a special election last night in Ohio:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 15th Congressional District, a safely Republican seat around Columbus, energy industry lobbyist Mike Carey prevailed over a crowded field, boosted by former president Donald Trump\u2019s endorsement. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s endorsement of Carey, a personal friend of the former president\u2019s adviser Corey Lewandowski, did not clear the field. Stivers endorsed and put campaign resources behind state Rep. Jeff LaRe, who emphasized his experience as a police officer, and Ohio Right to Life backed state Sen. Bob Peterson, who argued that his rivals aren\u2019t as trustworthy on abortion.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/ohio-house-primary-elections\/2021\/08\/03\/14b00716-f15d-11eb-bf80-e3877d9c5f06_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This suggests the obvious: the search for bellwethers, when it comes to American politics, is a bit foolish. Politics is local, even for national figures such as Sanders, Biden, and Trump.<\/p>\n<p>But these special elections and primaries do permit the plotting of maps. So far, we know the Texas District 6 appears to be waning in its support of the former President, while the Ohio 15th district appears to still be strong for him.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a Democratic primary, in the same article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shontel Brown, a Democratic county councilor, dealt a devastating blow to the party\u2019s liberal wing Tuesday night, prevailing over Nina Turner, a former co-chair for Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019s presidential campaign, in the Ohio primary for a safe Democratic seat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps devastating in the Ohio 11th District. Nationwide?<\/p>\n<p>Show me more results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Jake Ellzey (R-TX) defeating Susan Wright (R-TX) in a special election for the House of Representatives last week? Wright had the Trump endorsement, and Ellzey won easily. Now consider the primary for a special election last night in Ohio: In the 15th Congressional District, a safely Republican seat around \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/04\/political-mapping\/\"> 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-33858","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\/33858","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=33858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33859,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33858\/revisions\/33859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}