{"id":22889,"date":"2011-09-14T07:06:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T12:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22889"},"modified":"2011-09-14T07:19:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T12:19:55","slug":"start-spreading-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22889","title":{"rendered":"Start Spreading The News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turner didn&#8217;t just beat Weprin last night.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/files\/elections\/2011\/by_county\/NY_US_House_0913.html?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=POLITICS\">He brutalized him<\/a>. \u00a053-46 &#8211; <em>for <\/em>the Republican. \u00a0And it was more like 3:1 in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>In a district that voted 11% in favor of Obama in 2008, and hasn&#8217;t had a Republican in Congress in nearly eighty years.<\/p>\n<p>Let the excuses for this past year begin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;We <em>Almost <\/em>Won The Wisconsin Senate Back!&#8221;<\/strong>: Great. \u00a0That&#8217;s more or less like getting inside your opponents 30 yard line before going four-and-out&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;And New York Was&#8230;Well&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong>: &#8230;and then shanking the field goal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;It Wasn&#8217;t About Obama &#8211; It Was About Israel&#8221;: <\/strong>And Obama is behind our Israel policy. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111904353504576568710341742174.html\">Jews have been fleeing Obama<\/a>. They were solidly for him three years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">If things don&#8217;t change soon, Obama&#8217;s going to have shorter coattails than a plumber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind, thin<em>gs can <\/em>change between now an November of 2012. \u00a0 I still fully expect Obama to win in 2012, to gain at least one seat in the Senate, and to retake the House; if they fail at <em>any <\/em>of these, given the magnitude of Obama&#8217;s original win and the wave that swept Dems into office in &#8217;06 and &#8217;08, it will be a humiliating defeat.<\/p>\n<p>But this, like Scott Walker&#8217;s win in Massachusetts two years ago, could be an interesting harbinger for 2012<em>\u00a0&#8211; If <\/em>the GOP nominates a great candidate, and Conservatives hit the street and work like hell, like we did last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turner didn&#8217;t just beat Weprin last night.\u00a0He brutalized him. \u00a053-46 &#8211; for the Republican. \u00a0And it was more like 3:1 in Brooklyn. In a district that voted 11% in favor of Obama in 2008, and hasn&#8217;t had a Republican in Congress in nearly eighty years. Let the excuses for this past year begin: &#8220;We Almost [&hellip;]<\/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-22889","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\/22889","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=22889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22894,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22889\/revisions\/22894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}