{"id":11355,"date":"2015-10-26T13:11:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11355"},"modified":"2015-10-26T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:11:20","slug":"will-local-election-serve-as-bellwether","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11355","title":{"rendered":"Will local election serve as bellwether?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/constitution.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/constitution-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Old fashionet American Constitution with USA  Flag.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/constitution-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/constitution-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/constitution.jpg 1698w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This won&#8217;t take long.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming Amarillo election on the multipurpose event venue well could determine whether the wackiness that&#8217;s driving the national political debate has found its way to the Caprock.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-MPEV forces in Amarillo are well-funded and well-organized.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-MPEV forces are neither of the two.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-MPEV side is seen as the &#8220;establishment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The anti-MPEV folks are seen as &#8220;anti-establishment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, the anti-establishment side is winning the argument, particularly as it relates to who should become the Republicans&#8217; presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, well &#8230; the jury is still out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pulling for the establishment &#8212; in both instances.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This won&#8217;t take long. The upcoming Amarillo election on the multipurpose event venue well could determine whether the wackiness that&#8217;s driving the national political debate has found its way to the Caprock. The pro-MPEV forces in Amarillo are well-funded and well-organized. The anti-MPEV forces are neither of the two. The pro-MPEV side is seen as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will local election serve as bellwether?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,14,1],"tags":[5558,3153,4531],"class_list":["post-11355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-establishment","tag-mpev","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11409,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions\/11409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}