{"id":179346,"date":"2018-03-14T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/14\/about-pa-18\/"},"modified":"2018-03-14T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T05:45:00","slug":"about-pa-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/14\/about-pa-18\/","title":{"rendered":"About PA-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/03\/13\/us\/elections\/results-pennsylvania-house-special-election.html\">appears to be heading to a recount<\/a> with a margin in the \u00bc% to \u00bd% range (about 600 votes), with the Democrat leading.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it appears to be a roughly 20% swing from Trump, so whether or not the Democrat, Connor Lamb, or the Australopithecus, Rick Saccone actually ends up filling out remaining term of&nbsp; Tim Murphy, who resigned following allegations of sexual improprieties.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the results, I expect the Democratic party establishment to claim that this shows that they need to make no changes to their strategy, because, as Upton Sinclair noted, &#8220;It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(<i>Update 24 hours later<\/i>) Lamb has been declared the winner by a few hundred votes.<\/p>\n<p>No update on the recount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s appears to be heading to a recount with a margin in the \u00bc% to \u00bd% range (about 600 votes), with the Democrat leading. In any case, it appears to be a roughly 20% swing from Trump, so whether or not the Democrat, Connor Lamb, or the Australopithecus, Rick Saccone actually ends up filling out &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],"class_list":["post-179346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179346"}],"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=179346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}