{"id":2806,"date":"2008-07-02T10:01:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T15:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2008-07-02T10:01:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T15:01:06","slug":"coin-toss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2806","title":{"rendered":"Coin Toss?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Depending on who you ask, the upcoming elections are going to shake out one of two ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. Democrats, riding a wave of Bush-weariness and hope for audacity, are going to massacre Republicans<\/li>\n
  2. Shocked by Democrat tax and spending proposals, voters will opt for Republicans.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    “What election are you talking about?” you might ask.\u00a0 And the response is “yes”.<\/p>\n

    I’ve seen the numbers that show Barack Obama trouncing Mac this November – and seen some other fairly plausible cases pointing toward a potential Mac blowout.<\/p>\n

    As to Congress – well, OK, the theory breaks down a bit there.\u00a0 This is going to be a bad year on Congress.\u00a0 Indeed, if the Dems come out of this election at anywhere less than 80-20 in the Senate and with less than 340 seats in the House, it’ll be tantamount to a defeat.<\/p>\n

    But in the Minnesota Legislature?\u00a0 Things are a lot less clear there.\u00a0 The Dems have two years with a crushing majority, and have done a fairly risible job; after two sessions of complete control, all they have to their credit is a huge tax hike, Carol Molnau’s scalp, and not a whole lot more.<\/p>\n

    Sarah Janecek is breaking down the ten most-in-play races over at Politics in Minnesota – today is the first installment<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Depending on who you ask, the upcoming elections are going to shake out one of two ways: Democrats, riding a wave of Bush-weariness and hope for audacity, are going to massacre Republicans Shocked by Democrat tax and spending proposals, voters will opt for Republicans. “What election are you talking about?” you might ask.\u00a0 And the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","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=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}