{"id":1118,"date":"2007-07-30T03:49:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T08:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:35:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:35:07","slug":"mash-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Mash Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt, one of the giggly fratboys at MNPublius and late producer of AM950&#8217;s hapless &#8220;Minnesota Matters&#8221; (I&#8217;m not sure if I should congratulate Matt for getting into law school or for escaping the world of freebie PM drive radio), <a href=\"http:\/\/mnpublius.com\/2007\/07\/holy-klobuchars-approval-at-record-high\/\">gushes, crushes\u00a0and blushes<\/a> over A-Klo&#8217;s latest poll numbers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveyusa.com\/client\/PollTrack.aspx?g=86a0dde2-8b7b-4782-9d39-c40ad1d35a40\">SurveyUSA poll<\/a> that shows Senator Norm Coleman\u2019s numbers <a href=\"http:\/\/mnpublius.com\/2007\/07\/dfl-on-colemans-numbers\/\">tanking<\/a>, Senator Amy Klobuchar has more support than any other time since she took office. The 61% approval rating released today is nothing short of stunning and is even more impressive when viewed against the backdrop of her miniscule 31% disapproval rating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He finishes with&#8230;:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wow, just wow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Embarassing, just embarassing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Note to the crush-stricken Matt: it&#8217;s easy to get great approval numbers when <em>you don&#8217;t do anything.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>What, exactly, has A-Klo <em>done<\/em>?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(More important is what she hasn&#8217;t done:\u00a0 sat at the crux of a serious issue, as Coleman has, risking political capital on issues that matter.\u00a0 A-Klo has not.\u00a0 A-Klo gets good numbers because she is a <em>non-entity<\/em>).<!-- sphereit end --><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt, one of the giggly fratboys at MNPublius and late producer of AM950&#8217;s hapless &#8220;Minnesota Matters&#8221; (I&#8217;m not sure if I should congratulate Matt for getting into law school or for escaping the world of freebie PM drive radio), gushes, crushes\u00a0and blushes over A-Klo&#8217;s latest poll numbers: According to the same SurveyUSA poll that shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76212,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/76212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}