{"id":28,"date":"2006-11-08T07:53:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T13:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/11\/08\/teaching-moment\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T07:53:18","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T13:53:18","slug":"teaching-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Medved has a list of the lessons we should have learned last night.<\/a><\/p>\n

I have a few more:<\/p>\n

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  1. Check out the losers (in competitive races; Obi Sium, Rod Grams and Alan Fine can sit this one out, as can Colleen Rowley and Wild Wendy); Gil Gutknecht ran for the center when the president’s going got tough, as to a lesser extent did Mark Kennedy. Michele Bachmann stayed the course, and won by a solid margin. The lesson – conservatives win when they run as conservatives<\/em>. I’ll be looking forward to hearing David Strom’s split of races between candidates who ditched the “No New Taxes” pledge and those who’ve kept true to it; at a superficial glance last night, it looked like the tax-hikers lost out, as they did in ’04.<\/li>\n
  2. While the Minnesota Poll was, for once, almost accurate, the Strib’s reporting took its’ place as a loathsome DFL tool. If you are a citizen who cares about democracy (as opposed to untrammelled one-party rule), you need to become better-informed about the ways the Strib shades its reporting. Read the blogs. Become a blogger, if you’re angry enough.<\/li>\n
  3. A letter-writer last night noting that he hopes that the MN Republicans…
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    take a long hard look at how they run campaings after that ass kicking. I have a clue for them; Hennepin county matters, a whole lot!
    \nStupid suburbanites run the party and they ran the campaign. If Aklo didn’t suck so bad, I’d say they got what they deserved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n

    Put another way – the MNGOP needs to learn, once and for all, that until they can make the cities competitive, the current strategy of holing up in one’s suburban enclave is going to continue delivering us disasters.<\/ol>\n

    Plenty to learn, and about a year to learn it.<\/p>\n

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      Michael Medved has a list of the lessons we should have learned last night. I have a few more: Check out the losers (in competitive races; Obi Sium, Rod Grams and Alan Fine can sit this one out, as can Colleen Rowley and Wild Wendy); Gil Gutknecht ran for the center when the president’s going […]<\/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-28","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\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}