{"id":23,"date":"2006-11-07T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T16:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/11\/07\/predictions\/"},"modified":"2006-11-07T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T16:55:36","slug":"predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You got Strom&#8217;s predictions.  Now it&#8217;s my turn.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Senate<\/strong>:  A-Klo probably wins, but it&#8217;s going to be a lot closer than the pundits wanted it to be.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MN CD1<\/strong>: Gutknecht in a tight squeaker.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MN CD2<\/strong>: Kline is going to beat Rowley like it&#8217;s a prison shower-room beat-down.  Ten points at least.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MN CD3<\/strong>: Ramstad by twenty.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MN CD4<\/strong>: <strike>The MFT<\/strike> Betty &#8220;Rubble&#8221; McCollum will beat Obi Sium by around 20, 15 if we&#8217;re lucky.  But it&#8217;ll be a first step in breaking the DFL&#8217;s hegemony in the Four.  Will the CD4 GOP be smart enough to get the message?<\/li>\n<li><strong>MN CD5<\/strong>: Ellison 45, Fine 25, Lee 20, Greens and other hamsters divvy up the rest.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MN CD6<\/strong>: Bachmann by eight.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MN CD7<\/strong>: Peterson by a jillion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MN CD8<\/strong>: I haven&#8217;t followed this one.  I suspect habit-prone Rangers will return porkmeister Oberstar for his 200th term, but I&#8217;m ripe for a surprise.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Governor\/Loot Governor:<\/strong>  Pawlenty\/Molnau by four.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Attorney General<\/strong>: In a tribute to the influence of the media and Minnesotans&#8217; short attention spans, Lori Swanson will win by five.  More&#8217;s the pity; Johnson&#8217;s got my vote.  I&#8217;m hoping for a  surprise.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secretary of State<\/strong>: There&#8217;s some talk that this could be the upset race, with Kiffmeyer losing to foamy-mouthed Mark &#8220;Not Married To Madonna&#8221; Ritchie.  I certainly hope not.<\/li>\n<li><strong>State Auditor<\/strong>: Anderson by ten.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hennepin County Sheriff<\/strong>: Stanek will swarm on this race &#8211; twenty points, I bet.  When even the <em>City Pages <\/em>is on your side, and  you&#8217;re a Republican, you really have conquered the world.  Or at least Henco.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ramsey County Sheriff<\/strong>: Tougher call.  I give the nod to the incumbent, Fletcher.<\/li>\n<li><strong>US House:<\/strong> The Dems should gain 15 seats.  20 at the outside, far short of the 50 that would make this the real second-midterm victory they should have expected.<\/li>\n<li><strong>US Senate<\/strong>: The GOP will retain a 1-2 seat lead, far short of the four-seat deficit they should have gotten, which would constitute the lower threshold for a Dem &#8220;victory&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to the polls now.  See you on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.am1280thepatriot.com\">the Patriot<\/a> this evening!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> I don&#8217;t take these predictions all that seriously, and either should you.  I&#8217;ll pants the first person to wag their finger in my face and say &#8220;ha ha&#8221; if I&#8217;m wrong. It&#8217;s really not that big of a deal.<\/p>\n<p>But given my &#8217;04 record, who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You got Strom&#8217;s predictions. Now it&#8217;s my turn. Senate: A-Klo probably wins, but it&#8217;s going to be a lot closer than the pundits wanted it to be. MN CD1: Gutknecht in a tight squeaker. MN CD2: Kline is going to beat Rowley like it&#8217;s a prison shower-room beat-down. Ten points at least. MN CD3: Ramstad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-06"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}