{"id":42497,"date":"2025-06-23T12:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42497"},"modified":"2025-06-23T12:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:26:52","slug":"get-out-the-goat-entrails-ctd-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/06\/23\/get-out-the-goat-entrails-ctd-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Out The Goat Entrails, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who believe in <del>goat entrails<\/del> <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/05\/16\/get-out-the-goat-entrails-ctd-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special elections as a light<\/a> on the future, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/no-kings-protests-special-election-results-leave-no-doubt-backlash-tru-rcna213209?icid=nextpost_bot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s last week&#8217;s spotlight<\/a> from Steve Benen:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"anchor-196650\" class=\"body-graf\">Headed into last week\u2019s state legislative special elections, Democrats were confident about a contest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The state House race was in a district that Kamala Harris carried by 19 points, and the party\u2019s candidate, Amanda Clinton, appeared well positioned to do at least as well.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-0f3fe5\" class=\"body-graf\">The good news for Democrats was that their candidate prevailed. The better news for Democrats was the margin: Clinton won\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-downballot.com\/p\/oklahoma-democrat-racks-up-50-point\">a 69-point landslide<\/a>, easily surpassing expectations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republican voters are either dispirited or switching sides in that particular district. Keep in mind that gerrymandering no doubt packed the district with left leaning voters if it was easily carried by Harris just a few months ago &#8211; in ruby red Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t try to extend that to other parts of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who believe in goat entrails special elections as a light on the future, here&#8217;s last week&#8217;s spotlight from Steve Benen: Headed into last week\u2019s state legislative special elections, Democrats were confident about a contest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The state House race was in a district that Kamala Harris \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/06\/23\/get-out-the-goat-entrails-ctd-3\/\"> 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-42497","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\/42497","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=42497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42498,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42497\/revisions\/42498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}