{"id":34595,"date":"2021-11-03T18:42:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34595"},"modified":"2021-11-03T18:42:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:42:16","slug":"the-hierarchy-of-voter-concerns-ctd-or-the-gift-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/11\/03\/the-hierarchy-of-voter-concerns-ctd-or-the-gift-of-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hierarchy Of Voter Concerns, Ctd; or, The Gift Of Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erick Erickson had it right and the Democrats had it wrong<\/a>, as Democrat and former Governor Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) has gone down to defeat in his race to regain his seat in the governor’s mansion (Virginia governors may not serve consecutive terms), and Governor Murphy (D-NJ) is leading<\/a> his opponent, Jack Ciattarelli (R-NJ), by less than a point at last check, when he was expected to win easily. Erickson is exultant<\/a>, while CNN<\/em><\/strong> sees it<\/a> through the typical news media eyes:<\/p>\n

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Biden arrives back in Washington to a political nightmare<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And neither has gotten it right.<\/p>\n

This is a gift to, well, both parties. The GOP<\/strong><\/em> has a victory to gobble over, a win that they’ve been trained, for twenty and more years, to virtually consider the be-all and end-all of politics. Governing? Hah! But it makes them feel good, while invalidating all the rancid claims about the elections being rigged.<\/p>\n

But the Democrats are the big winners, because for the price of a governor’s seat, maybe two, and some other seats they didn’t expect to lose, they’ve received the priceless knowledge that the electorate, at least in some areas, is pissed at them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And while some of them certainly suspected it, this brings home the enormity of the problem.<\/p>\n

Now the question is whether or not the Democrats were smart enough to gather data directly from the voters. Are Sullivan’s observations<\/a> accurate? Will certain far-left ideas, such as Defund the police, which was defeated in Minneapolis last night, be dropped by Democrats – or will they renew making the case for them? That’s always a tricky dance, isn’t it? And if the Democrats blame the quality of the candidates, what to do then? Don’t bet on them in that case.<\/p>\n

But this is a golden opportunity for the Democrats – and Erickson may not realize it, but if he’s a strict partisan as I think he is, it’s a disaster for him.<\/p>\n

A potential disaster, at least. The Dems have about a half year to get it all figured out and start campaigning on their revised platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erick Erickson had it right and the Democrats had it wrong, as Democrat and former Governor Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) has gone down to defeat in his race to regain his seat in the governor’s mansion (Virginia governors may not serve consecutive terms), and Governor Murphy (D-NJ) is leading his opponent, \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-34595","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\/34595","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=34595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34596,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34595\/revisions\/34596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}