{"id":12185,"date":"2010-07-21T06:36:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T11:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12185"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:48:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:48:04","slug":"sputter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12185","title":{"rendered":"Sputter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Dayton (via his “surrogates”) spent a million dollars on advertising and trumping up a phony controversy over the past month –\u00a0and got bupkes for it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, there’s a lesson in this for all of us; be careful of what you wish for. \u00a0For years, I wished that U of M Professor Larry Jacobs weren’t the most overquoted person in the Twin Cities media. \u00a0And in response, we get Hamline University …<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr. Schultz; in May, Emmer had his post-convention bounce. \u00a0And 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”. \u00a0Of 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Dayton (via his “surrogates”) spent a million dollars on advertising and trumping up a phony controversy over the past month –\u00a0and 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,2],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-12185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-minnesota-politics","tag-emmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12185","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=12185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12225,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12185\/revisions\/12225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}