{"id":14977,"date":"2010-11-03T09:25:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T14:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14977"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:38:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:38:02","slug":"congratulations-dfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14977","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, DFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If last night&#8217;s results showed us anything, it&#8217;s that <em>any <\/em>little boy can grow up to outspend his opponent almost 3:1 with family and union money, and run an epochally sleazy campaign based on dodgy context and virtually no fact, with the aid of an in-the-bag media that won&#8217;t start asking the tough questions until January, and back into office by a fraction of a point (maybe) while insulting the intelligence of a little over half the electorate, and become governor just in time to sign on to an agenda that just got overwhelmingly repudiated nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>For a term.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one Renoir for every 3,000 votes&#8217; worth of margin.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Governor Hatch. \u00a0Er, &#8220;Governor Dayton&#8221;. \u00a0Seriously. \u00a0Don&#8217;t change a thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If last night&#8217;s results showed us anything, it&#8217;s that any little boy can grow up to outspend his opponent almost 3:1 with family and union money, and run an epochally sleazy campaign based on dodgy context and virtually no fact, with the aid of an in-the-bag media that won&#8217;t start asking the tough questions until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977","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=14977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14979,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977\/revisions\/14979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}