{"id":17784,"date":"2016-11-03T03:42:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T03:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17784"},"modified":"2016-11-03T03:42:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T03:42:39","slug":"battleground-state-getting-bloody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17784","title":{"rendered":"Battleground state getting bloody"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. <\/strong>— I’m getting a taste of what we’ve been missing in Texas.<\/p>\n

Since we don’t live in a “battleground state,” my wife and I have been spared the barrage of TV commercials from Donald J. Trump and Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n

Moreover, since we don’t have any serious statewide races to decide this election cycle, we’ve also been spared some of the amazing down-ballot campaign rhetoric voters are hearing in this battleground.<\/p>\n

Darryl Glenn is a Republican running for the U.S. Senate in Colorado. He is seeking to unseat Democratic incumbent Sen. Michael Bennett.<\/p>\n

A 30-second TV spot from Bennett asks voters\u00a0if they know who Glenn is. The spot highlights a recording of Glenn saying that he is “running against Democrats.” And, he adds, he is campaigning “against evil.”<\/p>\n

Democrats personify “evil,” says the Republican.<\/p>\n

Oh, brother.<\/p>\n

Twenty-two years ago, a Republican House of Representatives firebrand named Newt Gingrich led a partisan revolution that resulted in the GOP takeover of both houses of Congress.<\/p>\n

He instructed his Contract With America brigade to paint “Democrats as the enemy of normal Americans.” The enemy. Not a mere political adversary. The enemy, man<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Now the enemy has morphed — in the mind of another Republican — into evil<\/em>.<\/p>\n

See what we’ve been missing at home? Have you missed it? Neither have I.<\/p>\n\n

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — I’m getting a taste of what we’ve been missing in Texas. Since we don’t live in a “battleground state,” my wife and I have been spared the barrage of TV commercials from Donald J. Trump and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Moreover, since we don’t have any serious statewide races to decide this … Continue reading Battleground state getting bloody<\/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":[1112,1941,2179,3299],"class_list":["post-17784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-congress","tag-gop","tag-house-gop","tag-newt-gingrich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784","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=17784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17786,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784\/revisions\/17786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}