On Monday night, “American Idol” star Clay Aiken debated incumbent Renee Ellmers in the race for North Carolina’s second congressional district. The debate gave political rookie Aiken the opportunity to clarify his stand on several issues, but the pre-debate debut of “Republaiken” signs around the district seemed to lead only to confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n
Is he a Democrat or a Republican? Check out this lawn sign from#NC02 candidate @clayaiken<\/a> #Republaiken<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/solrhxkiGe<\/a><\/p>\n — Derick Waller WNCN (@derickwallerTV) October 6, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> What fresh hell is this? http:\/\/t.co\/z1HU1EL0xd<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/qtnXulTvWS<\/a><\/p>\n — Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) October 6, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> Isn’t he a Democrat? Lawn signs appear with ‘Republaiken’ slogan http:\/\/t.co\/YyI3BpGm4d<\/a> @ClayAiken<\/a> #ncpol<\/a> #NC02<\/a><\/p>\n — Moral Mondays (@MoralMondays) October 6, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @MoralMondays<\/a> @ClayForNC<\/a> is a Democrat. A Republaiken = Republican who supports Clay Aiken for #NC02<\/a><\/p>\n — Kim Sugino (@dancermom2) October 6, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> "Republaiken" lawn signs are Republicans who support Democrat @ClayforNC<\/a> this election RT .@MoralMondays<\/a> Isn’t he a Democrat?<\/p>\n — Ning Hush (@Glambush) October 6, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n<\/p> Ah.<\/p>\n\n\n @MABlumenfeld<\/a> That's terrible. Ban campaigns.<\/p>\n — Adam Cancryn (@adamcancryn) October 7, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> @adamcancryn<\/a> Ban everything man.<\/p>\n — Matt Blumenfeld (@MABlumenfeld) October 7, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/10\/07\/isnt-he-a-democrat-clay-republaiken-signs-confuse-north-carolina-voters\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/flash3917\/status\/518438517173927936 On Monday night, “American Idol” star Clay Aiken debated incumbent Renee Ellmers in the race for North Carolina’s second congressional district. The debate gave political rookie Aiken the opportunity to clarify his stand on several issues, but the pre-debate debut of “Republaiken” signs around the district seemed to lead only to confusion. Is he a Democrat … Continue reading ‘Isn’t he a Democrat?’ Clay ‘Republaiken’ signs confuse North Carolina voters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[35480,35481],"class_list":["post-66693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-clay-aiken","tag-clayaiken"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/15743943489334-clayaiken-e1342637693516.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}