{"id":16031,"date":"2010-12-08T06:27:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T12:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16031"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:19:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:19:18","slug":"the-better-man-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16031","title":{"rendered":"The Better Man “Loses”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Strib notes <\/a>what we’d sensed for most of the past month; the margin, fair or foul, is just too much.<\/p>\n

Tom Emmer seems likely to concede today.<\/p>\n

The better man “lost”.<\/p>\n

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A slimy, toxic campaign with only two focuses – “taxing the rich” and tearing down Tom Emmer – “won”, by half a point, after outspending Emmer 2 to 1.\u00a0 And by “won”, we mean…well, more on that later today.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Tom Emmer<\/strong>.\u00a0 I had the time of my life writing about your campaign, and doing my little bit to expose the slime <\/a>that lined up against you, and what an empty, vapid suit <\/a>you faced.\u00a0 You are the best stump speaker in Minnesota politics today, and you do something few do better – you explain conservatism to people who aren’t conservatives, brilliantly.<\/p>\n

Which is something the Minnesota Media did their damnedest to avoid allowing to get out there.<\/p>\n

So I hope we haven’t seen the last of you.<\/p>\n

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The only loser is Minnesota.<\/p>\n

More later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Strib notes what we’d sensed for most of the past month; the margin, fair or foul, is just too much. Tom Emmer seems likely to concede today. The better man “lost”. A slimy, toxic campaign with only two focuses – “taxing the rich” and tearing down Tom Emmer – “won”, by half a point, […]<\/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":[312],"class_list":["post-16031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-minnesota-politics","tag-mngov-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16031","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=16031"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16033,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16031\/revisions\/16033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}