{"id":2087,"date":"2008-02-06T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2008-02-06T09:00:53","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T14:00:53","slug":"theory-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2087","title":{"rendered":"Theory:  Evidence!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been monitoring a <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.e-democracy.org\/groups\/stpaul-issues\/messages\/topics.html\">Saint Paul Politics discussion group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d seem that turnout at DFL caucuses was <em>incredibly <\/em>heavy &#8211; and the Obama vote was <em>staggering<\/em>, with blowouts even worse than the one he notched statewide.<\/p>\n<p>Anecdotally, most of these new voters seemed to be fairly clueless; many of them just dropped in, cast their ballots, and left (legal in the DFL, not in the GOP, although many tried).<\/p>\n<p>Further evidence of my theory that Obama is the next Jesse Ventura; he&#8217;ll draw a slew of ignorant, clueless &#8220;voters&#8221; with his vaporous, vacuous &#8220;message&#8221; who would otherwise not have the faintest idea where the polls are. It&#8217;s interesting that the raw numbers of voters dropped in 2002. with Ventura out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>Which, to some, is a good thing.\u00a0 But I have to ask &#8211; are uninformed, clueless &#8220;voters&#8221; good for the country?<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re good for the DFL and the Tics, obviously; a lot of Republicans, myself included, started as Democrats until they got a clue.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been monitoring a Saint Paul Politics discussion group. It&#8217;d seem that turnout at DFL caucuses was incredibly heavy &#8211; and the Obama vote was staggering, with blowouts even worse than the one he notched statewide. Anecdotally, most of these new voters seemed to be fairly clueless; many of them just dropped in, cast their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","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=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}