{"id":23582,"date":"2018-09-23T12:53:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T11:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23582"},"modified":"2018-09-23T12:54:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T11:54:48","slug":"could-texas-turn-blue-the-battle-between-cruz-and-orourke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23582","title":{"rendered":"Could Texas turn blue? The battle between Cruz and O&#8217;Rourke."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the strange world of American politics, a blue state is one where the Democratic candidate is the winner. Texas has traditionally been a safe red state &#8211; that is, Republican. But that might change in the forthcoming US mid-term Congressional elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It underlines America\u2019s strange and turbulent political moment that the highest-profile and most intriguing battle in November\u2019s midterm elections is in one of the most predictably Republican states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a real race in the state of Texas,\u201d the Republican senator Ted Cruz said during a bruising debate with Beto O\u2019Rourke on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hard left is energised, they are angry, many of them are filled with hatred for President Trump.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are the opening words of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/sep\/22\/beto-orourke-ted-cruz-debate-texas-senate-democrat-republican\">an interesting article<\/a> in today&#8217;s Observer&#8221; newspaper. Go O&#8217;Rourke!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the strange world of American politics, a blue state is one where the Democratic candidate is the winner. Texas has traditionally been a safe red state &#8211; that is, Republican. But that might change in the forthcoming US mid-term Congressional elections. It underlines America\u2019s strange and turbulent political moment that the highest-profile and most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23585,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23582\/revisions\/23585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}