{"id":2151,"date":"2008-02-21T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2008-02-21T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T11:00:10","slug":"polling-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"Polling Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kouba, after sitting through a very, very long Obamatory, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthvmachine.com\/?p=5581\">ponders<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Abraham asked God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah if\u00a010 righteous people could be found there, and that after talking God down from fifty. I\u2019d bet my lunch money you couldn\u2019t find 10 people in that audience who really know what <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/issues\/healthcare\/#lower-costs\">Obama\u2019s health care \u201cplan\u201d<\/a> is. I\u2019d bet most of those people assume that when Obama talks about Guaranteed eligibility, Comprehensive benefits, Affordable premiums, co-pays and deductibles, they think they won\u2019t notice much change in their own health care, they just assume it will be cheaper. Somehow. On the way to the billing office, they\u2019ll just stop by the money tree and pick off a few fresh, ripe\u00a0bills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve wondered that about the mile-wide, inch-deep nature of awareness on the left in the past (as in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/000786.html\">this 2003 encounter<\/a> with a Code Pink crone who was passionately denouncing the concealed carry bill &#8211; about which she knew absolutely nothing).<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what an hour on the street in front of an Obamevent would tell us?<\/p>\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t really wonder at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kouba, after sitting through a very, very long Obamatory, ponders: Abraham asked God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah if\u00a010 righteous people could be found there, and that after talking God down from fifty. I\u2019d bet my lunch money you couldn\u2019t find 10 people in that audience who really know what Obama\u2019s health care \u201cplan\u201d is. [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","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=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}