{"id":74967,"date":"2018-11-08T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74967"},"modified":"2018-11-08T06:50:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T11:50:18","slug":"local-paper-the-election-of-joe-cunningham-to-the-house-a-shakeup-with-national-reverberations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74967","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) The Election of Joe Cunningham to the House&#8211;A shakeup with national reverberations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A seismic shakeup in the South Carolina political landscape reverberated nationwide Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>While the Lowcountry\u2019s 1st Congressional District race garnered attention for months as a potentially competitive contest, Democrat Joe Cunningham\u2019s victory over Republican Katie Arrington still stunned many political experts.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Wasserman, the top U.S. House editor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, sized up the result in a district Trump won easily in 2016 as the second biggest Democratic upset of the night nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/politics\/sc-democrats-point-to-age-old-lesson-in-cunningham-upset\/article_d75eb3b8-e2b8-11e8-93f2-dfb644dd6bb6.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A trivia question for you- when was the last time we had a First District Congressman with a BEARD- before Joe Cunningham? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7WwZUO0Vwv\">pic.twitter.com\/7WwZUO0Vwv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Sharpe (@BillSharpelive5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillSharpelive5\/status\/1060479344127164416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seismic shakeup in the South Carolina political landscape reverberated nationwide Tuesday night. While the Lowcountry\u2019s 1st Congressional District race garnered attention for months as a potentially competitive contest, Democrat Joe Cunningham\u2019s victory over Republican Katie Arrington still stunned many<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74967\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54,617,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-house-of-representatives","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74969,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74967\/revisions\/74969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}