{"id":2591,"date":"2008-05-20T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2008-05-20T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T10:50:00","slug":"teflon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2591","title":{"rendered":"Teflon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A current of change is sweeping Minnesota.\u00a0 Upset with the <em>status quo<\/em>, choked with rage (stoked by a media that is in the bag for the DFL), surfing a wave of audacious hopefulness, Minnesotans want Tim Pawlenty chased from offices with pitchforks and torches&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll found that 54 percent of adults in the state approve of the Republican Pawlenty&#8217;s job performance<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Er&#8230;ooops?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His approval rating remains above the 50-percent level, which is considered the danger threshold for a politician. And it&#8217;s in the same general range where Minnesotans have graded Pawlenty since he began his first term in 2003.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It also remains above the 45-and-small-change range, which was what he won on the &#8220;three-way&#8221; election of 2006 (where the &#8220;Independence&#8221; party soaked up a thin film of mostly-DFL votes).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But it represents a dip from the fall, when 59 percent of Minnesotans approved of his job performance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which was after the bridge collapse &#8211; a time when most people rally around their leaders, and where Pawlenty did by any rational measure an excellent job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A current of change is sweeping Minnesota.\u00a0 Upset with the status quo, choked with rage (stoked by a media that is in the bag for the DFL), surfing a wave of audacious hopefulness, Minnesotans want Tim Pawlenty chased from offices with pitchforks and torches&#8230; A new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll found that 54 percent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","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=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}