I have a couple of predictions for you.<\/p>\n
Prediction 1: \u00a0Polled To Death –<\/span> <\/strong>Take this to the bank: \u00a0sometime before July 1, the Strib <\/em>will run another “Minnesota Poll” in re the shutdown.<\/p>\n The poll’s headlines will be within one rhetorical standard deviation of \u00a0“65% of Minnesotans Favor Compromise On Budget Impasse”.<\/p>\n The crosstabs, carefully buried, will show that DFLers are oversampled by 50%; those trying to investigate the faint whiff of metrocentrism<\/a> in the polling will be frustrated by the absolute lack of crosstabs showing geography.<\/p>\n Prediction 2: Dead Silence – <\/strong>Despite the avalanche of evidence<\/a> coming out of the state bureaucracy that Dayton is not only pushing for the shutdown, but actively trying to make it “hurt” as much as possible<\/a>, there will be not one word on the subject from the Strib, <\/em>WCCO, the PiPress<\/em>, the KARE Bears (whose John Cronan is rapidly shaping up to be an Esme Murphy-grade stealth-DFL \u00a0propagandist), or MPR.<\/p>\n Place your bets.<\/p>\n Or make your own predictions, in the comment section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a couple of predictions for you. Prediction 1: \u00a0Polled To Death – Take this to the bank: \u00a0sometime before July 1, the Strib will run another “Minnesota Poll” in re the shutdown. The poll’s headlines will be within one rhetorical standard deviation of \u00a0“65% of Minnesotans Favor Compromise On Budget Impasse”. The crosstabs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,125],"tags":[262,436],"class_list":["post-20586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-the-great-poll-scam","tag-minnesota-poll","tag-esme-murphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20586","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=20586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20588,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20586\/revisions\/20588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}