{"id":1957,"date":"2017-12-12T22:33:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T03:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2017-12-13T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T15:38:59","slug":"alabama-special-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Special Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody _1n4g\">Jones won! Write-in candidate votes exceed the margin by which he won, but he <em>won<\/em>. With exit polls indicating that allegations against Moore weren&#8217;t a big deciding factor. I&#8217;m curious what impact the allegations had on <em>turnout<\/em>\u00a0though &#8212; the voter didn&#8217;t decide their vote based on the allegations, but they either felt it important enough to go vote. They didn&#8217;t want to vote for a pedophile *or* a Democrat so stayed home because of\u00a0Moore&#8217;s sexual history. And how much Moore&#8217;s &#8220;the early 1800&#8217;s were great even if slavery was a thing because OUR families stayed together&#8221; and poorly obfuscated desire to return to a period when only rich white dudes got to vote drove turnout too.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jones won&#8217;t be sworn in before\u00a0the recess. Each county has until 22 Dec to certify their results, and some counties don&#8217;t have a lot of incentive to hurry that process. The state then has until 03 Jan to certify\u00a0<em>their<\/em> results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jones won! Write-in candidate votes exceed the margin by which he won, but he won. With exit polls indicating that allegations against Moore weren&#8217;t a big deciding factor. I&#8217;m curious what impact the allegations had on turnout\u00a0though &#8212; the voter didn&#8217;t decide their vote based on the allegations, but they either felt it important enough &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[460,211,26],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-alabama-special-election","tag-maga","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}