{"id":40006,"date":"2024-03-27T18:48:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40006"},"modified":"2024-03-27T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T23:49:07","slug":"the-goat-went-over-the-ridge-and-seemed-in-a-hurry-ctd-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/03\/27\/the-goat-went-over-the-ridge-and-seemed-in-a-hurry-ctd-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goat Went Over The Ridge, And Seemed In A Hurry, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Along the intellectual path of goat entrails and special elections<\/a>, ruby red Alabama had a special election yesterday, and its results must have left Republicans a little aghast.<\/p>\n

An Alabama Democrat who campaigned aggressively on abortion access won a special election in the state Legislature on Tuesday, sending a message that abortion remains a winning issue for Democrats, even in the deep South.<\/p>\n

Marilyn Lands won a state House seat in a rare competitive race to represent a district that includes parts of Huntsville. Lands, a mental health professional, centered her bid on reproductive rights and criticized the state\u2019s near-total abortion ban along with a recent state Supreme Court ruling that temporarily banned in vitro fertilization.\u00a0[Politico<\/a><\/b>]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Competitive, yes, but …<\/p>\n

Lands ran for the seat in 2022 and lost by 7 points to Republican David Cole, who resigned last year after\u00a0pleading guilty to voter fraud<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lands’ margin of victory?\u00a0Almost 25 points<\/a>. Sure, politics is generally local, and perhaps her opponent, Republican Teddy Powell, was a poor candidate – but a swing of some thirty points or more is not a mistake.<\/p>\n

It’s more of a sign. In neon.<\/p>\n

It’ll be interesting to keep an eye on Alabama and its local Republican Party, to see if SCOTUS<\/strong>‘ Dobbs<\/em><\/a> decision, and the Alabama State Supreme Court’s threats to IVF<\/a>, not to mention their clownish pair of Senators, Katie Britt (R-AL) of the State Of The Union Response Speech fame<\/a>, and Tommy Tuberville, who endangered national security by holding up officer promotions in a temper tantrum over abortion services<\/a>, suddenly transform Alabama into a purple State. Don’t forget, the last time the Republicans nominated a real clown for Senator, Judge Roy Moore, who was of a theocratic temperament and an alleged, but unproven so far as I know, sexual predator, Alabama voters narrowly rejected the Republican in favor of Doug Jones (D-AL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Along the intellectual path of goat entrails and special elections, ruby red Alabama had a special election yesterday, and its results must have left Republicans a little aghast. An Alabama Democrat who campaigned aggressively on abortion access won a special election in the state Legislature on Tuesday, sending a message \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-40006","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\/40006","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=40006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40008,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40006\/revisions\/40008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}