{"id":181637,"date":"2016-04-27T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/27\/well-there-was-some-good-primary-news-yesterday\/"},"modified":"2016-04-27T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T00:11:00","slug":"well-there-was-some-good-primary-news-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/27\/well-there-was-some-good-primary-news-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, there was some Good Primary News Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted a few months ago, Chris Matthews&#8217; wife, Kathleen, was running for Congress, and that <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/well-this-explains-why-chris-matthews.html\">Chris Matthews was pimping his show to her campaign donors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Running against her was a wine mogul who spent over $1o million dollars, and the winner was the people of Maryland&#8217;s 8th district, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/politics\/bal-md-congress-8th-2016-story.html\">because very liberal constitutioal law professor Jamie Raskin beat them both<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">State Sen. Jamie Raskin defeated self-funded businessman David Trone and former television news anchor Kathleen Matthews in the most expensive congressional primary race in the nation \u2014 a crowded contest in Maryland\u2019s Montgomery County-based 8th District.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The campaign to succeed Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen in the district was competitive and costly. Van Hollen&#8217;s decision to run for the Senate created a rare open seat.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Candidates competing for the seat spent more than $14 million since last year \u2013 more than $10 million of it by Trone, who finished second.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Trone, founder of the Total Wine &amp; More retail stores, blanketed the district \u2013 which stretches from Montgomery County north into Frederick and Carroll counties \u2013 with television and radio ads and mailings. \u201cWe don\u2019t take money from PACs, lobbyists or corporations,\u201d was a prominent campaign message. His strategy included a push to win over voters who are using absentee ballots.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Raskin won by about 7,000 votes, holding a 34 percent to 27 percent advantage over Trone. Matthews took third at 24 percent.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Raskin wins the general, and it is a very safe district, then Raskin will be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2016\/04\/26\/jamie-raskin-an-openly-humanist-u-s-house-candidate-from-maryland-just-won-his-primary\/\">only out atheist in Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little thing, and I am still stuck with Dutch Ruppersberger in my district, but I&#8217;ll take it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted a few months ago, Chris Matthews&#8217; wife, Kathleen, was running for Congress, and that Chris Matthews was pimping his show to her campaign donors. Running against her was a wine mogul who spent over $1o million dollars, and the winner was the people of Maryland&#8217;s 8th district, because very liberal constitutioal law &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181637"}],"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=181637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}