{"id":12532,"date":"2010-08-09T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12532"},"modified":"2010-08-09T12:23:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T17:23:28","slug":"the-shorter-dfl-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12532","title":{"rendered":"The Shorter DFL Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I caught most of the DFL goober debate on MPR last night. \u00a0For the benefit of those of you who did not, I&#8217;ll sum up the <em>gestalt <\/em>of the three candidates&#8217; positions:<\/p>\n<p>DAYTON: \u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna raise taxes! \u00a0And I&#8221;m gonna keep on raising them until things improve!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KELLIHER: &#8220;Hey, lookit how relatively responsible, sane and conservative I seem compared to Dayton!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ENTENZA: &#8220;We don&#8217;t call it spending, we call it an inves&#8230;<em>hey<\/em>, I just spent five million dollars and every \u00a0nickel of it went to bashing Tom Emmer, rather than explaining to Minnesota why I&#8217;m a better DFL nominee than the other two candidates! \u00a0Why, it&#8217;s almost as if my spending did nothing but benefit Mark Dayton!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The latest polls show Dayton up by eleventy-teen bajillion points. \u00a0Stick a fork in Entenza. \u00a0As re Kelliher, the DFL endorsement remains the kiss of death.<\/p>\n<p>Bring on Wednesday, baby!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught most of the DFL goober debate on MPR last night. \u00a0For the benefit of those of you who did not, I&#8217;ll sum up the gestalt of the three candidates&#8217; positions: DAYTON: \u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna raise taxes! \u00a0And I&#8221;m gonna keep on raising them until things improve!&#8221; KELLIHER: &#8220;Hey, lookit how relatively responsible, sane and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12532","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=12532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12534,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12532\/revisions\/12534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}