{"id":178981,"date":"2018-06-26T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/26\/its-primary-night-and-holy-fing-sh\/"},"modified":"2018-06-26T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T03:39:00","slug":"its-primary-night-and-holy-fing-sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/26\/its-primary-night-and-holy-fing-sh\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Primary Night, and Holy F%$#ing Sh%$!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Primary night in Maryland, New York, Utah, Colorado, and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (age 28) defeated incumbent Joseph Crowley by over 15 points in NY-14<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is a big deal.  Crowly was the number 4 Democrat in the House, and considered a favorite to (eventually) succeed Pelosi as Speaker, and he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to hold onto his seat.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez, by contrast is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and a Bernie supporter.<\/p>\n

My only question is whether or not the machine in the district will try to push Republican Anthony Pappas, on the theory that if he wins, it makes it easier for a machine pol to take the district back, though given that the district went for Hillary by about 60 points, that would be a very tough<\/p>\n

Good news in Maryland<\/a> too, where former NAACP chairman Ben Jealous won the Democratic gubernatorial primary by more than 10% after a Sanders endorsement, though the general is by no means a sure thing as Republican incumbent Larry “Governor Ratf%$#” Hogan is rather paradoxically popular.<\/p>\n

More locally, John “Johnny O” Olszewski, the unabashedly progressive candidate is leading Jim Brochin the race by about 250 votes, with the 3rd<\/sup> place candidate, back about 1,000 votes in the race for County Executive.<\/p>\n

Considering that there are something like 80,000 provisional ballots statewide due to a DMV motor-voter f%$#-up, we could be waiting for a few weeks on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Primary night in Maryland, New York, Utah, Colorado, and Oklahoma. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (age 28) defeated incumbent Joseph Crowley by over 15 points in NY-14. This is a big deal.  Crowly was the number 4 Democrat in the House, and considered a favorite to (eventually) succeed Pelosi as Speaker, and he spent hundreds of thousands of …<\/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],"class_list":["post-178981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178981"}],"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=178981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}