{"id":28606,"date":"2018-11-08T11:35:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28606"},"modified":"2018-11-08T11:35:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:35:36","slug":"gerrymandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28606","title":{"rendered":"Gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/article221282920.html#storylink=mainstage\">Across the state<\/a>, Republican candidates for Congress won 50.3 percent of the vote and Democrats won 48.4 percent of the vote, according to a News & Observer analysis of vote totals. Democrats did not have a candidate in Eastern North Carolina\u2019s 3rd district, won by Republican incumbent Rep. Walter Jones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To restate:<br \/>\nDems only ran in 12 of NC's 13 Congressional districts.<br \/>\nThey still got 48.4% of the total votes.<br \/>\nAnd they only won 3 seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the state, Republican candidates for Congress won 50.3 percent of the vote and Democrats won 48.4 percent of the vote, according to a News &#038; Observer analysis of vote totals. Democrats did not have a candidate in Eastern North Carolina\u2019s 3rd district, won by Republican incumbent Rep. Walter Jones. To restate: Dems only ran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28607,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28606\/revisions\/28607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}