{"id":300,"date":"2014-10-22T21:25:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T02:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservativelefty.wordpress.com\/?p=300"},"modified":"2014-10-22T21:25:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T02:25:11","slug":"do-democrats-always-win-close-statewide-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Do Democrats Always Win Close Statewide Elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/10\/22\/do-democrats-always-win-close-statewide-elections\/#disqus_thread\">Do Democrats Always Win Close Statewide Elections?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is showing something that I&#8217;ve been saying for nearly 20 years. \u00a0If a Republican wants to win the election, they need to win the vote outside the margin of error (typically 2-3%). \u00a0If the election is any closer, then the Democrat vote ginning machine is usually able to steal the election.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re seeing this in play now, before the November elections. \u00a0Democrats aren&#8217;t trying to win in a lot of these races. \u00a0They&#8217;re just trying to get close enough for their election stealing machine to go to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do Democrats Always Win Close Statewide Elections? This is showing something that I&#8217;ve been saying for nearly 20 years. \u00a0If a Republican wants to win the election, they need to win the vote outside the margin of error (typically 2-3%). &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=300\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[22,51,56,68,95,100,106,115],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-news","category-politics","tag-tcot","tag-current-events","tag-election","tag-government","tag-overreach","tag-politics-2","tag-progressives","tag-tea-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yCHs-4Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}