{"id":7878,"date":"2016-06-19T19:22:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T01:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7878"},"modified":"2016-06-19T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T21:22:57","slug":"the-trump-effect-could-arizona-go-blue-for-the-first-time-in-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/the-trump-effect-could-arizona-go-blue-for-the-first-time-in-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump effect: Could Arizona go blue for the first time in 20 years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1sNjj2f\">by Philip Rucker, WaPo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arizona is not the only red state where Trump is vulnerable. In Georgia, Democrats dream of capitalizing on the large black and growing Latino populations to put the state in play. And in Utah, one of the nation\u2019s most solidly Republican states, a recent poll had the race tied. Resistance to Trump among Mormons, who make up a majority of Utah\u2019s voters, is intense; Romney is a leader of the \u201cNever Trump\u201d movement.<\/p>\n<p>The Mormon resistance may have an effect in Arizona as well. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints counts more than 400,000 members here, which is roughly 6 percent of the state\u2019s population. If enough Mormons vote against Trump or stay home, it would depress his vote total.<\/p>\n<p>The swing vote here traditionally is moderate Republican women \u2014 and doubts about Trump\u2019s character has softened his support with this block. Arizona has a celebrated history of electing female executives, including Brewer and her predecessor, Democrat Janet Napolitano, which is another reason Clinton\u2019s allies feel bullish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Philip Rucker, WaPo Arizona is not the only red state where Trump is vulnerable. In Georgia, Democrats dream of capitalizing on the large black and growing Latino populations to put the state in play. And in Utah, one of the nation\u2019s most solidly Republican states, a recent poll had the race tied. Resistance to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/the-trump-effect-could-arizona-go-blue-for-the-first-time-in-20-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Trump effect: Could Arizona go blue for the first time in 20 years?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7880,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878\/revisions\/7880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}