{"id":11604,"date":"2013-11-06T01:10:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T09:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11604"},"modified":"2013-11-06T01:10:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T09:10:51","slug":"election-day-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/election-day-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the time you read this, the results will be in, so please understand that I\u2019m writing while the polls are still open.  The two high profile races are the gubernatorial contests in NJ and VA, and they appear to be done deals, but one can always hope and\/or fear depending on the state.  There are other very important issues, especially determining who will be allowed to exercise their right to vote and who will have it stolen.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1105Election\"Welcome to Election Day 2013, where two gubernatorial contests and the race for mayor of the nation’s biggest city will be settled and a GOP primary battle for a U.S. House seat in Alabama is getting outsized attention.<\/p>\n

But what makes most of these 2013 elections interesting is what they may tell us about 2014 midterms and the 2016 race for the White House.<\/p>\n

Virginia and New Jersey are the only two states to hold elections for governor in the year after a presidential contest, putting them directly in the national political spotlight. In New Jersey, public opinion polls indicate tough-talking Gov. Chris Christie, one of the biggest names in the Republican Party, will easily win re-election over little known Democratic state Sen. Barbara Buono.<\/p>\n

With Christie considering a run for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, his re-election campaign is seen as a tuneup or stepping stone for that likely White House bid.<\/p>\n

In Virginia, national issues like the government shutdown and the health care law are playing a large role in the battle between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. For months McAuliffe has held a consistent small lead in public opinion polls over Cuccinelli, who is considered a hero to many tea party supporters and other grass-roots activists thanks to his very public conservative crusades, including his push against Obamacare\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow covered the topic in two segments. In the first, she talked about the Republican War on Voting.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Perhaps the reason Republicans now admit that they are excluding minorities to help Republican chances is to make this seem practical rather than racist. They ignore the reason most minorities vote for Democrats. Minorities object to the racism inherent in Republican economic policy and the overt racism embraced by so many prominent Republicans in their quest to capture the hate vote.<\/font><\/p>\n

In the second segment, she covers Republican v. Republican contests.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

I’d love it if Sen. Cornhole lost to Bagger Barton!! It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Young beats Byrne in Bama.<\/font><\/p>\n

But most of all, may the Cooch screw the Pooch!<\/font><\/p>\n

(these should be visible in Europe, because I was able to find a back way in to MSNBC’s old video player, but it works for Rachel Maddow only. I cannot say how long it will last.)<\/font><\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: The Cooch screwed the pooch!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By the time you read this, the results will be in, so please understand that I\u2019m writing while the polls are still open.  The two high profile races are the gubernatorial contests in NJ and VA, and they appear to be done deals, but one can always hope and\/or fear depending on the state.  There […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}