{"id":6168,"date":"2010-05-19T00:26:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T05:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6168"},"modified":"2010-05-19T00:51:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T05:51:31","slug":"results_from_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/results_from_th\/","title":{"rendered":"Results from the PA-6th: Trivedi Wins!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via the Swing State Project<\/a> that is monitoring the results here<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

12:42am: The AP calls PA-06 (D) for Manan Trivedi and PA-17 (R) for Dave Argall. <\/p>\n

12:22am: Trivedi wins! 100% in according to the AP, and he’s up 21,338 to 20,667, a 50.8% to 49.2% victory! WOOHOO!!!! GREAT NIGHT! <\/p>\n

12:12am: Manan Trivedi is up 672 votes, and it looks like there are very few if any precincts outstanding. Hard to tell, though, since the SoS doesn’t say, and AP is lagging. [Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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As I said last night:<\/p>\n\n

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… but we know with absolute certainty that it will come down to anywhere from a couple thousand to a couple hundred votes (more likely the latter). [SM<\/a>]\n

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I can’t help but reflect on this comment from last September when Trivedi announced:<\/p>\n\n

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…it is not a good idea for us as South Asians to support candidates simply because of who they are. We have to be more sophisticated and look realistically at their chances at winning<\/span><\/font>. Does it make sense for us to invest our time and money in a candidate who has no support locally and whose only campaign strategy is to raise money from the South Asian community? No.<\/p>\n

As a proud supporter of Raj Goyle’s congressional run in Kansas, I know that it takes time to lay the groundwork for a political run for office. For him, and for Trivedi, the sky is and should be the limit. But, they have to be smart about planning long-term strategies to create the local and political groundwork for these races. It’s too bad Trivedi has not done so. [SM<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

There is a lesson here.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via the Swing State Project that is monitoring the results here: 12:42am: The AP calls PA-06 (D) for Manan Trivedi and PA-17 (R) for Dave Argall. 12:22am: Trivedi wins! 100% in according to the AP, and he’s up 21,338 to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}