{"id":189012,"date":"2010-06-10T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/10\/primary-election-results\/"},"modified":"2010-06-10T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T01:56:00","slug":"primary-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/10\/primary-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blanche Lincoln <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704575304575296700673194736.html?mod=WSJ_Markets_MIDDLETopNews\">won  the runoff<\/a>, I still think that she is going to lose the general,  and this season, the Democratic wing of the Democratic party won&#8217;t be  spending time, effort, or money on her.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, it was her, intended-to-fail derivatives proposal that  really got the financial regulation bill moving in the right direction  in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>In California, Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman proved that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/IT-Infrastructure\/ExTech-CEOs-Fiorina-Whitman-Win-California-GOP-Races-325443\/\">rich people can buy primary elections in California<\/a>, which is not a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, South Carolina, once again proves Congressman James Petigru&#8217;s adage, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republic_of_South_Carolina\">South  Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum<\/a>,&#8221; true, with the Democratic Party&#8217;s primary of Alvin Green, an unemployed <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/2010_Elections\/alvin-greene-surprise-win-south-carolina-primary-felony\/story?id=10867602\">dishonorably discharged<\/a> veteran facing felony obscenity charges who ran no campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The theory is that he won because <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.scnow.com\/scp\/news\/politics\/local_govtpolitics\/article\/analysis_thursday_with_thigpen13\/184128\/\">his name appeared first on the ballot<\/a>, but this does not explain <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/06\/mysterious_alvin_greene_candidacy_shows_some_life.php?ref=tn\">how he came up with a $10,400.00 filing fee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This gets curious because SC Senator Jim Demint (R) was considered to be one of the more vulnerable &#8216;Phants this year in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering who counted the ballots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blanche Lincoln won the runoff, I still think that she is going to lose the general, and this season, the Democratic wing of the Democratic party won&#8217;t be spending time, effort, or money on her. On the plus side, it was her, intended-to-fail derivatives proposal that really got the financial regulation bill moving in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189012"}],"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=189012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}