{"id":210,"date":"2017-11-08T01:16:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T01:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whoobazoo.com\/thebooth\/?p=210"},"modified":"2017-11-08T01:16:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T01:16:50","slug":"2017-election-dems-win-nj-va-governor-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whoobazoo.com\/thebooth\/2017\/11\/08\/2017-election-dems-win-nj-va-governor-races\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Election &#8211; Dems win NJ and VA governor races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of 8:10 pm, NBC projects wins for Murphy in NJ and Northam in VA in their respective governors races.\u00a0 Pundits will spin this as big news for the Democrats for the midterms and bad news for President Trump.\u00a0 Both may be correct, but in my view the polls show the voters focused much more on local issues and less about the national parties.\u00a0 Murphy had an easy win trying to replace Chris Christie, who fell to 15% favorable in the poll, thus hurting the GOP candidate.\u00a0 In VA, Ed Gillespie abandoned his more establishment GOP credentials and went extremely negative in recent weeks, accused by many of playing race.\u00a0 Northam tried to run a more mainstream democratic race and appears to have held the seat, despite some challenges.\u00a0 More to follow in the coming days as we look at these and other races around the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of 8:10 pm, NBC projects wins for Murphy in NJ and Northam in VA in their respective governors races.\u00a0 Pundits will spin this as big news for the Democrats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whoobazoo.com\/thebooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whoobazoo.com\/thebooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whoobazoo.com\/thebooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whoobazoo.com\/thebooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whoobazoo.com\/thebooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whoobazoo.com\/thebooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whoobazoo.com\/thebooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whoobazoo.com\/thebooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whoobazoo.com\/thebooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}