{"id":146773,"date":"2014-10-02T03:49:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T07:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/the-pizza-guy-whos-shaking-up-the-nc-senate-race.php"},"modified":"2014-10-02T03:49:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T07:49:38","slug":"the-pizza-guy-whos-shaking-up-the-nc-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/the-pizza-guy-whos-shaking-up-the-nc-senate-race.php","title":{"rendered":"The Pizza Guy Who&#39;s Shaking Up the NC Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    By day, Sean Haugh delivers pizzas and resells old books on    Amazon.  <\/p>\n<p>    But moonlighting as North Carolinas Libertarian Senate    candidate, he could serve up the states hotly contested Senate    seat to Democrats in November.  <\/p>\n<p>    Im very much a factor in the race, Haugh told ABC News.  <\/p>\n<p>        Tight NC Senate Race Keeps to Playbook in First Debate  <\/p>\n<p>        North Carolina Senate Race 2014: ABC News' '14 For 14'  <\/p>\n<p>    If the contest between Sen. Kay Hagan and Republican state House    Speaker Thom Tillis remains narrowly divided in the final weeks    of the race, political strategists believe Haugh could siphon    votes away from Tillis and help hand the incumbent Democrat a    victory. Democrats believe North Carolina is increasingly    becoming their best firewall to stop Republicans from picking    up the six seats needed to win control of the Senate.  <\/p>\n<p>    If its really close -- people might say even at two percent    -- Haugh would be playing a role in the outcome, said North    Carolina State University political scientist Andrew Taylor.  <\/p>\n<p>    Haugh, 53, is no stranger to state politics. He ran for Senate    as a Libertarian in 2002, and has also worked with the states    Libertarian Party in various capacities. He said he entered the    race in February as an act of conscience.  <\/p>\n<p>    There wasnt any Libertarian stepping up, he said.  <\/p>\n<p>    His platform, laid out in a series of low-fi YouTube videos filmed at the home bar in    his campaign managers basement, calls for peace and fiscal    security, and an alternative to candidates owned by outside    corporate interests.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Original post: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/meet-pizza-guy-whos-shaking-north-carolina-senate\/story?id=25894118\/RK=0\/RS=ZQm6ywA8aWOt9Qc5ktAbSvnhCKs-\" title=\"The Pizza Guy Who&#39;s Shaking Up the NC Senate Race\">The Pizza Guy Who&#39;s Shaking Up the NC Senate Race<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By day, Sean Haugh delivers pizzas and resells old books on Amazon. But moonlighting as North Carolinas Libertarian Senate candidate, he could serve up the states hotly contested Senate seat to Democrats in November. Im very much a factor in the race, Haugh told ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/the-pizza-guy-whos-shaking-up-the-nc-senate-race.php\">Continue reading <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":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}