Sputter

Mark Dayton (via his “surrogates”) spent a million dollars on advertising and trumping up a phony controversy over the past month – and got bupkes for it:

According to the latest FOX News-Rasmussen Poll , Mark Dayton would beat Republican Tom Emmer 40 to 36 percent, with the Independence Party candidate Tom Horner [dropping to] 10 percent.

Now, there’s a lesson in this for all of us; be careful of what you wish for.  For years, I wished that U of M Professor Larry Jacobs weren’t the most overquoted person in the Twin Cities media.  And in response, we get Hamline University …

Political analyst David Schultz said it looked like Emmer was clearly ahead back in May. He believes two things have changed. He believes the democrats are now better known than a few months ago and Emmer’s recent dispute with waiters and waitresses didn’t help.

Mr. Schultz; in May, Emmer had his post-convention bounce.  And yes, generally having concurrent advertising blitzes for a month while Emmer didn’t run ads (til the past few days) will mean the Dems are “better known”.  Of course, having the DFL-leaning media engineer two straight hit jobs – Pat Doyle’s squib and the waiter bit – will bring out the negatives; that’s what they were designed to do.

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