{"id":23301,"date":"2012-11-07T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=23301"},"modified":"2012-11-07T07:30:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T12:30:58","slug":"quick-mormon-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/quick-mormon-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Mormon Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the results so far for Mormon candidates running for the U.S. Congress. I will have complete results for all races in the next few days, as they become available. Please let us know your thoughts and about any aspects of the elections that you though important:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>U.S. Senate<\/h3>\n<p>Elected or remaining in office:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>*Mike Crapo \u2014 Republican, Idaho [Next election for this seat is in 2016.]<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Flake \u2014 Republican, Arizona<\/li>\n<li>*Orrin Hatch \u2014 Republican, Utah<\/li>\n<li>*Dean Heller \u2014 Republican, Nevada<\/li>\n<li>*Mike Lee \u2014 Republican, Utah [Next election for this seat is in 2016.]<\/li>\n<li>*Harry Reid \u2014 Democrat, Nevada [Next election for this seat is in 2016.]<\/li>\n<li>*Mark Udall \u2014 Democrat, Colorado [Next election for this seat is in 2014.] \u2014 Does not consider himself LDS, but comes from a historically LDS family.<\/li>\n<li>*Tom Udall \u2014 Democrat, New Mexico [Next election for this seat is in 2014.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lost:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scott Howell \u2014 Democrat, Utah<\/li>\n<li>Shaun McCausland \u2014 Constitution, Utah<\/li>\n<li>Dave VanderBeek \u2014 American Independent, Nevada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>U.S. House<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>*Rob Bishop \u2014 Republican, Utah 1st<\/li>\n<li>*Mo Brooks \u2014 Republican, Alabama 5th (convert, wife LDS, no longer considers himself LDS)<\/li>\n<li>*Jason Chaffetz \u2014 Republican, Utah 3rd<\/li>\n<li>*Eni F. H. Faleomavaega \u2014 Democrat, American Samoa<\/li>\n<li>*Darrell Issa \u2014 Republican, California 49th (Mother is LDS, he doesn\u2019t consider himself LDS)<\/li>\n<li>*Raul Labrador \u2014 Republican, Idaho 1st<\/li>\n<li>*Buck McKeon \u2014 Republican, California 25th<\/li>\n<li>Matt Salmon \u2014 Republican, Arizona 5th<\/li>\n<li>*Mike Simpson \u2014 Republican, Idaho 2nd<\/li>\n<li>Chris Stewart \u2014 Republican, Utah 2nd<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Results uncertain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mia Love \u2014 Republican, Utah 4th<\/li>\n<li>*Jim Matheson \u2014 Democrat, Utah 4th<\/li>\n<li>Kyrsten Sinema \u2014 Democrat, Arizona 9th (Gay, inactive Mormon and BYU graduate)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lost:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>*Leonard Boswell \u2014 Democrat, Iowa 3rd (member of Community of Christ, fka RLDS Church)<\/li>\n<li>Jim Bourland \u2014 Constitution, Mississippi 1st<\/li>\n<li>Floyd Fitzgibbons \u2014 American Independent, Nevada 4th<\/li>\n<li>Ethan Garafolo \u2014 Libertarian, Texas 31st<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Garrard \u2014 Constitution, Utah 2nd<\/li>\n<li>Chris Henrichsen \u2014 Democrat, Wyoming<\/li>\n<li>Seth Hollist \u2014 Libertarian, Texas 32nd<\/li>\n<li>Jay Seegmiller \u2014 Democrat, Utah 2nd<\/li>\n<li>Soren Simonsen \u2014 Democrat, Utah 3rd<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While I&#8217;d rather not get into discussing the merits of the various gay marriage proposals, I can&#8217;t help but observe that both the Maine and Maryland ballot measures passed, leaving opponents without the ability to claim that gay marriage has never been passed by voters in the U.S. [As I understand it, before this the states that allowed same-sex marriage did so as a result of court decisions.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the results so far for Mormon candidates running for the U.S. Congress. I will have complete results for all races in the next few days, as they become available. Please let us know your thoughts and about any aspects of the elections that you though important:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23302,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301\/revisions\/23302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}