Joe Doakes from Como writes about the latest round of presidential\/vice-presidential campaign junketeering:<\/p>\n
What would you say is the most liberal place in Wisconsin? UW-Madison?<\/p>\n
How about Iowa? Drake University?<\/p>\n
What would you say is the most liberal place in the Twin Cities? Macalester?<\/p>\n
Where did the President go last month, and Vice-President today, just four weeks before the election, in prime campaign time?<\/p>\n
Why those tiny oases of liberalism rather than larger middle-of-the-road locations? Why spend the entire day on the campaign for Governor of a fly-over state, and not stumping for Congressional candidates in close races around the country?<\/p>\n
No other Democrat wants to be anywhere near them.<\/p>\n
Desperation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And fear.<\/p>\n
No, not just the “ooooh, you conservatives are motivated by fear<\/em>!” BS Dems throw out as a substitute for intelligent argument.<\/p>\n
It’s the fear that their base is eroding. \u00a0A confident movement strikes out into territory it hasn’t conquered before – like Reagan into the Rust Belt, or Obama into the suburbs, or like Chip Cravaack into the hinterlands of the Iron Range.<\/p>\n
A movement on the defensive hides out in places like UW\/Madison and Macalester and tries to keep the less koolaid-sotted droogs from sitting the election completely out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como writes about the latest round of presidential\/vice-presidential campaign junketeering: What would you say is the most liberal place in Wisconsin? UW-Madison? How about Iowa? Drake University? What would you say is the most liberal place in the Twin Cities? Macalester? Where did the President go last month, and Vice-President today, just […]<\/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-14083","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\/14083","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=14083"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14085,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions\/14085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}