{"id":11744,"date":"2012-07-02T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11744"},"modified":"2012-07-03T06:50:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T11:50:19","slug":"who-do-minnesota-liberals-hate-2012-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11744","title":{"rendered":"Who Do Minnesota Liberals Hate, 2012 Edition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, in the run-up to the mid-terms, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11722 \">I ran a poll that was one of my favorites in the history of this blog<\/a>; what Minnesota conservatives do liberals hate the most?<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t a huge shock that Michele Bachmann won, naturally.\u00a0 But I wonder &#8211; with two years passed, how have things changed?<\/p>\n<p>And so it&#8217;s time for the second stab at a tradition unlike any other: \u00a0the 2012 edition of &#8220;Who Do Minnesota Liberals Hate?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the rules, such as they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Put together a list of who Minnesota liberals hate the most, this year.<\/li>\n<li>Put it in descending order of hate: \u00a0in other words, &#8220;1&#8221; is highest, &#8220;10&#8221; is lowest.<\/li>\n<li>Theoretically, you can put as many as you want on your list &#8211; but since the list is in descending order, adding more than 10 or 15 will mean that the &#8220;passion index&#8221; of some of the lower members of your list will get shorted. \u00a0So while you &lt;i&gt;can&lt;\/i&gt; add many, many to your list, it&#8217;s best to keep it to 5, 10 or at the outside 15-20 names.<\/li>\n<li>Leave &#8217;em in the comment section of this post (or send them to &#8220;feedbackinthedark@yahoo.com&#8221;, with &#8220;POLL&#8221; in the subject line).<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t put in a specific order, I&#8217;ll just take them in descending priority from whatever list you DO provide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll run the flights starting Thursday, with the top ten on Friday. \u00a0Nominations will be taken until 11:59PM on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness, here; \u00a0this poll is a serious academic attempt to measure the intellectual <em>id <\/em>of the liberals in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>So start arfing up those lists! \u00a0This post will be periodically moved to the top of the blog&#8217;s post list.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->For historical purposes, here are 2010&#8217;s results &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11722\">Top Ten<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11719\">11-20<\/a> finishers, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11717\">21-30<\/a>. \u00a0And for all academics reading this for historical purposes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11613\">here&#8217;s the post with the nominations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, in the run-up to the mid-terms, I ran a poll that was one of my favorites in the history of this blog; what Minnesota conservatives do liberals hate the most? It wasn&#8217;t a huge shock that Michele Bachmann won, naturally.\u00a0 But I wonder &#8211; with two years passed, how have things changed? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744","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=11744"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28718,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744\/revisions\/28718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}