{"id":179747,"date":"2017-11-07T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/07\/election-night\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T04:51:00","slug":"election-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/07\/election-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In New Jersey, Democrats have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/democrat-phil-murphy-defeats-kim-guadagno-in-new-jersey-governors-race\/2017\/11\/07\/43abb566-c3e8-11e7-aae0-cb18a8c29c65_story.html\">retaken the Governor&#8217;s mansion<\/a>, but this is not a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Jersey is firmly blue, and outgoing Republican Governor Chris Christie is well past his sell by date, and the polls predicted a romp, so this is not a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia has been a much closer affair, but the Democrats won, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/polls-close-anticipation-builds-as-virginia-governors-race-results-trickle-in\/2017\/11\/07\/68d6941e-c3d4-11e7-84bc-5e285c7f4512_story.html\">taking the Governor&#8217;s race<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/virginia-lt-gov-attorney-general-races-remain-close-with-most-votes-counted\/2017\/11\/07\/3424f378-c316-11e7-84bc-5e285c7f4512_story.html?utm_term=.6fa8442a061b\">Lt. Governor and Attorney General<\/a> races.<\/p>\n<p>In the Governor&#8217;s race, Ralph Northam beat Ed Gillespie by 9% beating the polls by 6%.<\/p>\n<p>Further down ticket, the Democrats have picked up at least 14 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates, with 4 as-yet-uncalled close races possibly flipping the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly heartening is the fact that Virginia&#8217;s first transgender person to win an election, defeated a Republican who is arguably the most virulent anti-LGBT bigot in the state house:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Danica Roem, who will be Virginia\u2019s first openly transgender elected official, defeated Del. Robert G. Marshall (R-Prince William), a culture warrior who opposes LGBT rights. Elizabeth Guzman, who raised more money than any Democratic candidate except for Hurst, unseated Del. L. Scott Lingamfelter (R-Woodbridge).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New Jersey, Democrats have retaken the Governor&#8217;s mansion, but this is not a surprise. Jersey is firmly blue, and outgoing Republican Governor Chris Christie is well past his sell by date, and the polls predicted a romp, so this is not a surprise. Virginia has been a much closer affair, but the Democrats won, &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-179747","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\/179747"}],"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=179747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}