{"id":175869,"date":"2020-11-05T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/05\/the-poor-showing-in-the-house-races\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T03:26:00","slug":"the-poor-showing-in-the-house-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/05\/the-poor-showing-in-the-house-races\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poor Showing in the House Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 incumbent house Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/results-house.html\">have been defeated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The caucus memberships, and politics, of the 6 losers are interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kendra Horn, Caucuses: <b>Blue Dog, New Dem<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Collin Peterson, Caucuses: <b>Blue Dog<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Xochitl Torres Small, Caucuses: <b>Blue Dog, New Dem<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Caucuses: <b>New Dem<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Joe Cunningham, Caucuses: <b>Blue Dog, New Dem<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Donna Shalala: Caucuses: None that matter, but ineluctably tied to  both Clintons, and facilitated a union busting campaign while president  of the University of Miami.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was hoping that it would be one more, but the contemptible Cheri Bustos pulled out a squeaker.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The policy of the DCC, DNC and DSCC to actively support conservative Democrats, even where it does not match the electorate is a losing proposition.<\/p>\n<p>Do not give to these organizations.&nbsp; Give to the candidates directly, via <a href=\"https:\/\/actblue.com\/\">Act Blue<\/a> or the like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 incumbent house Democrats have been defeated. The caucus memberships, and politics, of the 6 losers are interesting: Kendra Horn, Caucuses: Blue Dog, New Dem Collin Peterson, Caucuses: Blue Dog Xochitl Torres Small, Caucuses: Blue Dog, New Dem Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Caucuses: New Dem Joe Cunningham, Caucuses: Blue Dog, New Dem Donna Shalala: Caucuses: None that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,375,374],"class_list":["post-175869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}