I went into a neighborhood store the other day.\u00a0 The guy behind the counter is someone I talk politics with on occasion; he knows I’m a Republican, he is too (we all know each other in Saint Paul), and knows that I do a talk show.<\/p>\n
“So how bad is it?” he asked. “Emmer down by 12 points?”<\/p>\n
I spent about twenty minutes talking him off the ledge, explaining all the methodological problems in the “Minnesota Poll” and the “Humphrey Institute” polls.\u00a0 By the time I left, he’d put the sharp objects back in their places.<\/p>\n
But as I walked back to the car, I thought if you’re one of the DFL’s opinion-manipulation technicians, that’s gotta be music to your ears<\/em>.\u00a0 Good Republicans losing heart in the month before an election that, by all rights, we should win and win big.<\/p>\n And all because of lies, and a couple of polls that, in a just world, would be called push polls, or just-plain propaganda.<\/em><\/p>\n So my mission is clear.\u00a0 Dispel the DFL’s and media’s (pardon the redundancy) lies, one at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went into a neighborhood store the other day.\u00a0 The guy behind the counter is someone I talk politics with on occasion; he knows I’m a Republican, he is too (we all know each other in Saint Paul), and knows that I do a talk show. “So how bad is it?” he asked. “Emmer down […]<\/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-14011","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\/14011","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=14011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14015,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14011\/revisions\/14015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}