{"id":178754,"date":"2018-08-28T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/28\/another-progressive-upset-2\/"},"modified":"2018-08-28T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T01:32:00","slug":"another-progressive-upset-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/28\/another-progressive-upset-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Progressive Upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Gillum who was massively outspent by his opponents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/28\/us\/politics\/florida-arizona-election-results.html\">won the Democratic primary for Governor in Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my favorite bit: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cMy opponents have spent, together, over $90 million in this race. We have spent four\u201d million, he said. \u201cMoney doesn\u2019t vote. People do.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr. Gillum edged Ms. Graham, a former North Florida congresswoman who finished second, and Mr. Levine, the former Miami Beach mayor who finished third after dropping nearly $30 million of his personal fortune into the campaign. Ms. Graham, a moderate, had been considered the favorite in a midterm year in which many Democratic women have fared well.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr. Gillum\u2019s unexpected nomination represents a sharp break with recent Florida midterm elections in which Democratic voters nominated somewhat bland moderates to try to win in a purple state. Instead, they lost over and over again: Democrats have not held the Florida governor\u2019s mansion in two decades, and they lost the past two governor\u2019s elections by a single percentage point.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, they ran a colorless candidate and then a former Republican political hack and they both lost to governor Bat Boy.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the establishment wanted Bob Graham&#8217;s kid, because nepotism works so well at getting candidates elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Gillum who was massively outspent by his opponents, won the Democratic primary for Governor in Florida. Here is my favorite bit: \u201cMy opponents have spent, together, over $90 million in this race. We have spent four\u201d million, he said. \u201cMoney doesn\u2019t vote. People do.\u201dMr. Gillum edged Ms. Graham, a former North Florida congresswoman who &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":[375,374],"class_list":["post-178754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178754"}],"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=178754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}