{"id":13532,"date":"2010-09-15T22:27:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T03:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13532"},"modified":"2010-09-15T22:27:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T03:27:43","slug":"the-media-wants-a-horserace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13532","title":{"rendered":"The Media Wants A Horserace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I caught the Channel Five news just now. \u00a0Channel Five&#8217;s 10PM news opened with a stock shot of Jesse Ventura, and asked &#8220;could we be heading for a repeat?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was how they kicked off their segment on the latest KSTP\/Survey USA poll.<\/p>\n<p>I braced myself for another three way race, like back in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Dayton was down to 38 (from 46 in the last Survey USA poll); Emmer up to 36 (from 32), and Horner was at&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>18. \u00a0Up from 9.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a prediction; he&#8217;s peaked. \u00a0And if he hasn&#8217;t, he&#8217;ll be taking voters from the DFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I caught the Channel Five news just now. \u00a0Channel Five&#8217;s 10PM news opened with a stock shot of Jesse Ventura, and asked &#8220;could we be heading for a repeat?&#8221; This was how they kicked off their segment on the latest KSTP\/Survey USA poll. I braced myself for another three way race, like back in [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532","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=13532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13535,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532\/revisions\/13535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}