{"id":13344,"date":"2010-09-08T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13344"},"modified":"2010-09-08T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T16:05:36","slug":"failure-is-not-an-option-a-tactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13344","title":{"rendered":"Failure Is <strike>Not An Option<\/strike> A Tactic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s a good thing that David &#8220;The Spam Meister&#8221; Plouffe is one of the &#8220;geniuses&#8221; behind the Obama campaign two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>His tactic this year? \u00a0Put the bar down on the ground, walk over it, and spin it as a successful high-jump:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPresident Obama&#8217;s top political guru said Tuesday that he believes 70 House races and 15 Senate races are in play this fall.<\/p>\n<p>White House senior adviser David Plouffe \u2014 Obama&#8217;s 2008 presidential campaign manager \u2014 said that a bevy of races were in play, from the national to local level.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Next stop: say the GOP <em>should <\/em>pick up 140 seats; spin a 60 seat pickup as a crushing disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>Reality is this; if the GOP picks up 20 seats in the House, and <em>any <\/em>in the Senate, the DFL should commit <em>seppuku<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s a good thing that David &#8220;The Spam Meister&#8221; Plouffe is one of the &#8220;geniuses&#8221; behind the Obama campaign two years ago. His tactic this year? \u00a0Put the bar down on the ground, walk over it, and spin it as a successful high-jump: President Obama&#8217;s top political guru said Tuesday that he believes 70 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13344","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=13344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13352,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13344\/revisions\/13352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}