{"id":2088,"date":"2008-02-06T09:33:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T14:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2008-03-17T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T15:49:16","slug":"biff-bang-pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2088","title":{"rendered":"Biff Bang Pow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at True North, the theme is amazement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Reading the results from caucus after caucus, the point is clear; Republicans turned out in droves. In record numbers. Numbers like nobody’s ever seen. And it wasn’t just the hordes of Ronulans that some had predicted (although they were very much in evidence).<\/p>\n

And while people turned out for the Tic caucuses as well, there’s a difference; at DFL caucuses, people can “vote ‘n dash”, causing one DFL stalwart to note on a Saint Paul discussion group:<\/p>\n

> On another note, what I found in our precinct, when the dust settled is that [the lopsided Obama blowout] would be reversed when you looked at who stayed to actually caucus and agree to the heavy lifting through to November.
\n> Listen, if we want to switch to a primary state, then that is fine. But if we’re going to be a caucus state, we should caucus and the straw polls and binding ballots should be the last order of business, not the first.
\nI’m afraid a large number of our National delegation will have to plug their nose* to cast their binding ballots, since there won’t be any committed supporters of the candidate that are actually delegates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the meantime, every single GOP vote<\/em> in that crushing onslaught of turnout was from someone who stayed the distance, voted on party business and resolutions and all the stuff that normally bores those with short enough attention spans to actually need to be <\/em>Tics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at True North, the theme is amazement. Reading the results from caucus after caucus, the point is clear; Republicans turned out in droves. In record numbers. Numbers like nobody’s ever seen. And it wasn’t just the hordes of Ronulans that some had predicted (although they were very much in evidence). And while people turned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","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=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}