{"id":19984,"date":"2011-05-13T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19984"},"modified":"2011-05-13T06:41:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T12:41:48","slug":"somebodys-huffing-cheap-paint-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19984","title":{"rendered":"Somebody’s Huffing Cheap Paint Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama’s campaign – really, has his administration ever not <\/em>been a campaign? – now claims Texas <\/em>is winnable in 2012<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina, speaking to big-money Lone Star State Democrats at closed-door meetings in Austin and Dallas in March, predicted Obama could make a \u201cserious play\u201d in the cornerstone of GOP presidential politics, according to people in attendance.<\/p>\n

And Obama\u2019s senior adviser David Plouffe has told fellow Democrats the nation\u2019s second most populous state might add to his national \u201cmap\u201d of contested states, arguing that the huge increase in voting-eligible Hispanic Texans in recent years could bring the state into play sooner than expected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a theory. \u00a0Not a good one; Obama”ll need every penny he’s got in his war chest defending putative Dem strongholds in the next election. \u00a0Allahpundit has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But just out of a sense of personal endzone-spiking, I gotta ask; where have we heard Obama’s people making absurd claims about their power to turn conservative states on with his smile? \u00a0To take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?<\/p>\n

Why, it was right here, folks<\/a>, and you should know it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obama’s campaign – really, has his administration ever not been a campaign? – now claims Texas is winnable in 2012: Obama\u2019s 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina, speaking to big-money Lone Star State Democrats at closed-door meetings in Austin and Dallas in March, predicted Obama could make a \u201cserious play\u201d in the cornerstone of GOP presidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984","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=19984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19987,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984\/revisions\/19987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}