{"id":12842,"date":"2016-02-10T04:07:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T04:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12842"},"modified":"2016-02-10T04:07:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T04:07:22","slug":"both-major-parties-seeing-huge-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12842","title":{"rendered":"Both major parties seeing huge transformation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I spent most of my day in airports and on airplanes today, so I was a bit out of the political loop.<\/p>\n

Until I got home.<\/p>\n

Then I found out that Donald J. Trump won the Republican primary in New Hampshire in a yuuuuge<\/em> way. I also found out that Bernie Sanders buried Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n

What does it mean?<\/p>\n

Beats the devil out of me.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to suggest just yet that both major political parties are in the midst of a major makeover.<\/p>\n

Sanders’ win was expected, given that he is a virtual favorite son, as he represents next-door Vermont in the U.S. Senate. Clinton admitted as much earlier this evening when she conceded the New Hampshire primary to Sanders.<\/p>\n

On she and Sanders will march to South Carolina, where a hefty African-American voter base is expected to give Clinton a built-in advantage.<\/p>\n

Now, what about them Republicans?<\/p>\n

Trump won by a lot. Perhaps the bigger tempest will occur among those who finished behind Trump. John Kasich finished in second place. Now the Ohio governor becomes the latest favorite of the GOP “establishment wing” to challenge Trump. What happened to Marco Rubio? Or Ted Cruz? Or Chris Christie?<\/p>\n

As I finish up this post, I am hearing reports on cable TV news that Christie’s bid might be over. He savaged Rubio at the latest GOP debate, which appears to have inflicted near-mortal wounds on the young senator from Florida. Christie, though, didn’t get the bounce he expected. He’s heading for New Jersey, the TV talking heads report, to consider his options.<\/p>\n

Look, I’ve noted already that some serious balloting is yet to occur. We’ve got the Super Tuesday event in early March, which includes big, bad Texas taking part in that primary donnybrook.<\/p>\n

Will these results determine the future of both major political parties? Perhaps.<\/p>\n

However, so help me, this election is impossible to chart with semblance of certainty.<\/p>\n

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I spent most of my day in airports and on airplanes today, so I was a bit out of the political loop. Until I got home. Then I found out that Donald J. Trump won the Republican primary in New Hampshire in a yuuuuge way. I also found out that Bernie Sanders buried Hillary Clinton … Continue reading Both major parties seeing huge transformation?<\/span> →<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[597,965,1342,1424,2139,2537,2892,3261,3914,4537,4678],"class_list":["post-12842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-chris-christie","tag-democratic-primary","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-john-kasich","tag-marco-rubio","tag-new-hampshire-primary","tag-republican-primary","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12842","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=12842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12844,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12842\/revisions\/12844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}