{"id":9610,"date":"2017-05-26T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9610"},"modified":"2017-05-26T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:56:25","slug":"is-it-still-team-politics-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/26\/is-it-still-team-politics-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Still Team Politics?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case \u00a0you missed it, Gianforte won<\/a> the race for the empty lone Montana House of Representatives seat<\/a>. FiveThirtyEight’s<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Nate Silver\u00a0notes<\/a> vote finalization takes a while in Montana:<\/p>\n

Gianforte leads by about 7 percentage points<\/a> as we wrap up this live blog. The numbers will shift around a bit \u2014 Montana takes a long time to finalize its vote \u2014 but we should wind up somewhere in that range, which we can call the mid-to-high single digits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CNN<\/strong><\/em> shows<\/a> a 6 point gap, with 5.7 points to the Libertarian candidate – Gianforte is at 50.1%. CNN’s<\/strong><\/em> Lauren Fox comments:<\/p>\n

But Montana’s election may be an unreliable arbiter of what’s to come in races across the country. After all, the race here featured a banjo-playing, first-time Democratic candidate, and many of Montana’s voters cast absentee ballots before the alleged assault even took place. The events that transpired here won’t be easily replicated.<\/p>\n

“All politics are local,” said Art Wittich, a Gianforte supporter. “It comes down to two candidates.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps Quist didn’t have what it takes to be a good candidate. After all, being a folk singer is not the same as being an experienced politician.<\/p>\n

So now it’s up to Gianforte to prove he’s not another GOP<\/strong><\/em> zombie, that he’s not joining the Gohmert\/Roby<\/a>\/Ryan crew to vote in solid lock-step with the GOP<\/strong><\/em> dictates. It’s so easy, when you’re not sitting in that hot seat, to say this:<\/p>\n

…\u00a0Gianforte didn’t fully embrace the Republican House-passed bill <\/a>from the beginning, arguing it was rushed and not fully baked. His own campaign staff said Gianforte wouldn’t have voted for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s quite another to actually have to face the pressure of a vote and the angry glare of the GOP<\/strong><\/em> whip. So will Gianforte exercise his best judgment and vote against legislation which is bad for America?<\/p>\n

Or will he just be another zombie GOP<\/strong><\/em> member and betray Montana in the process?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case \u00a0you missed it, Gianforte won the race for the empty lone Montana House of Representatives seat. FiveThirtyEight’s\u00a0Nate Silver\u00a0notes vote finalization takes a while in Montana: Gianforte leads by about 7 percentage points as we wrap up this live blog. The numbers will shift around a bit \u2014 Montana \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-9610","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\/9610","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=9610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9611,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610\/revisions\/9611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}