{"id":13734,"date":"2010-09-20T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13734"},"modified":"2010-09-20T10:26:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T15:26:27","slug":"sagging-in-the-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13734","title":{"rendered":"Sagging In The Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor David Schultz says\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/schultzstake.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/millions-wasted-clarkbachmann-race-is.html\">it&#8217;s time for the DFL to tag it and bag it<\/a> as re the Tarryl Clark campaign (I&#8217;ll add emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The poll reports that the lead is unchanged from the previous survey. Since then hundreds of ads and hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars have poured into the race. Yet nothing has changed. If anything, the poll suggests opinions and voting preferences are fixed and with 5% undecided, there is little in terms of swing votes to move.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The race is over<\/strong>. About a week ago I blogged about how Democrats are wasting money on this race and need to stop pouring money into it and shift it to the Third Congressional District (Jim Meffert) or other races across the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna suggest that Meffert is not going much further, either. \u00a0I&#8217;m predicting Paulson will win by at least the same margin Bachmann does. \u00a0Granted, I&#8217;m less\u00a0connected\u00a0to the Third District than the Six, but I&#8217;m comfortable in saying Meffert shouldn&#8217;t start measuring drapes anytime soon, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor David Schultz says\u00a0it&#8217;s time for the DFL to tag it and bag it as re the Tarryl Clark campaign (I&#8217;ll add emphasis): The poll reports that the lead is unchanged from the previous survey. Since then hundreds of ads and hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars have poured into the race. Yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734","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=13734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13735,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734\/revisions\/13735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}