{"id":9149,"date":"2017-04-18T22:40:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T03:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9149"},"modified":"2017-04-18T22:40:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T03:40:43","slug":"bated-breath-for-tomorrow-ctd-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/18\/bated-breath-for-tomorrow-ctd-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bated Breath For Tomorrow, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the basic health of the <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em>, I&#8217;m hoping Jon Ossoff of the Democrats wins the Georgia 6th District special election tonight, delivering the message that voters will not tolerate the extremism and apparent corruption exhibited by <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em>-backed winning candidates in the last several months, from Trump on down. For what it&#8217;s worth, CNN is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/04\/18\/politics\/georgia-house-6th-special-election-jon-ossoff\/index.html?adkey=bn\" target=\"_blank\">reporting &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As of 10:40 p.m. ET, Ossoff had 50.3% of the vote, with 77% of the vote in, according to Edison Research<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>which is about an hour ago. 3 tenths of one percent is not much of a margin, but I think is actually better performance than most poll-watchers were expecting. Will it hold up? And will the GOP be smart enough to realize that this isn&#8217;t a time to hunker down, whatever, the result, but to learn and ask what&#8217;s wrong with them?<\/p>\n<p>Hard to do for a party that supposedly controls both chambers of Congress, although Trump is more of a chaoticist than a Republican, so I&#8217;m not certain that it&#8217;s accurate to say the <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em> has the Presidency as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the basic health of the GOP, I&#8217;m hoping Jon Ossoff of the Democrats wins the Georgia 6th District special election tonight, delivering the message that voters will not tolerate the extremism and apparent corruption exhibited by GOP-backed winning candidates in the last several months, from Trump on down. For \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/18\/bated-breath-for-tomorrow-ctd-3\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-9149","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\/9149","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=9149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9150,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149\/revisions\/9150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}