{"id":317,"date":"2006-08-08T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2006-08-08T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T15:00:32","slug":"ct-primary-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2006\/08\/08\/ct-primary-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"CT Primary Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so the day is finally here, when we get to see if Ned Lamont can pull off an upset of our pal Joey.  I&#8217;m sure that Ned isn&#8217;t pure enough, left enough, or whatever else enough to make him the &#8220;perfect&#8221; candidate for many people, but for me (non-CT resident that I am), it has a lot more to do with sending a message to the rest of the Democrats that there are going to be consequences for acting like a Republican for 5\u00bd years, and then pretending to be a Democrat to get re-elected.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;ll turn out to be any kind of a message, who knows.  First off, I&#8217;m pretty tired of moral victories where candidates do &#8220;really well&#8221; and lose.  For one thing, I think Joey will take any win (or even a fairly close loss) as a sign of encouragement, and allow him to fashion himself as a hero and martyr, having overcome the forces of the evil blogosphere.  He needs to be smacked down hard so as to be totally discouraged from running as an independent.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re over there in Connecticut, don&#8217; forget to get out there today and vote for Lamont.  Otherwise, Aunt Esther will be around to kick your heathen ass.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your fingers crossed, and have a good Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so the day is finally here, when we get to see if Ned Lamont can pull off an upset of our pal Joey. I&#8217;m sure that Ned isn&#8217;t pure enough, left enough, or whatever else enough to make him the &#8220;perfect&#8221; candidate for many people, but for me (non-CT resident that I am), it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}