{"id":2277,"date":"2006-06-13T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2006\/06\/13\/primarily-primary-thoughts-2\/"},"modified":"2006-06-13T23:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T04:24:00","slug":"primarily-primary-thoughts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/primarily-primary-thoughts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Primarily Primary Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>List of things that surprised me in the Republican Primaries<br \/><strong>1-Lovelace\u2019s 35% victory?<\/strong> I don\u2019t understand it. Oscar ran well, worked hard, yet lost. Gov. Sanford is getting pressed with questions like \u201cwhy didn\u2019t you win by more?\u201d Lee Bandy with the State calls it a &#8220;serious blow to Sanford.&#8221; Mark was never in danger of being the Republican nominee on the ballot. Last time I checked, you need 50% plus 1 vote. Go figure&#8230;again. Congratulations Gov!<br \/><strong>2-Mike Campbell<\/strong> \u2013 I voted for Henry Jordan, after all, he did get me into politics, but the Campbell margin shocked me.<br \/><strong>3-Cindy Wilson<\/strong> for Anderson County Council \u2013 I\u2019m surprised that some actually believed that she could lose. One of these days, folks are going to realize that this genteel lady is popular with her constituents.<br \/><strong>4-Karen Floyd<\/strong> &#8211; We&#8217;ve supported Karen and knew she&#8217;d do well, but winning without a run off with several candidates is almost impossible. Good job Mrs. Floyd!<\/p>\n<p>I predicted:<br \/><strong>1-Ron Wilson<\/strong> \u2013 Ron ran against a long time councilman, yet is on record for voting for several tax increases. Also, he\u2019s quoted as saying \u201cI\u2019m ashamed of being a Republican.\u201d Sorry, but those things don\u2019t fly well in Powdersville. Congratulations Ron.<br \/><strong>2-The Liberal Media&#8217;s normal reaction<\/strong>&#8211; Every Wednesday after an election, we get the same editorials from our media. &#8220;We told you how to vote, you did not listen to us, therefore you&#8217;re stupid.&#8221; Us voters are so out of touch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>List of things that surprised me in the Republican Primaries1-Lovelace\u2019s 35% victory? I don\u2019t understand it. Oscar ran well, worked hard, yet lost. Gov. Sanford is getting pressed with questions like \u201cwhy didn\u2019t you win by more?\u201d Lee Bandy with the State calls it a &#8220;serious blow to Sanford.&#8221; Mark was never in danger of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-AJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}