{"id":28420,"date":"2012-06-08T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28420"},"modified":"2012-06-08T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T17:41:07","slug":"time-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28420","title":{"rendered":"Time For A Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted about this yesterday – but it came out in the afternoon, after most people have read my blog for the day.<\/p>\n

So I’ll try this again: \u00a0I would like to ask you a favor. \u00a0Get out on Twitter and “Follow” Tony Hernandez’ Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tony’s\u00a0running for Congress in Minnesota’s Fourth CD<\/a>\u00a0– my district, the district of Betty McCollum, who has been taking up space in the US House for a long, long time.<\/p>\n

Conventional wisdom says the race can’t be won – that the 4th is just tooooo Democrat.<\/p>\n

It’s not true, of course; it can <\/em>be won. \u00a0Redistricting shaved down the DFL advantage from 70-30 to maybe 60-40.<\/p>\n

And the Dems’ ugly secret – Betty McCollum isn’t even that popular among DFLers. \u00a0Her vote totals just keep dropping. \u00a0Oh, she raises all sorts of outside money – but her “passion index”, even in 2008., was pretty low.<\/p>\n

I live in CD4, and I’m not going to lie – I’m ready for it to take ten years to make the GOP in CD4 a viable party.<\/p>\n

But with a little help, we juuuuust <\/em>might be able to jump-start things a bit.<\/p>\n

Whaddya say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted about this yesterday – but it came out in the afternoon, after most people have read my blog for the day. So I’ll try this again: \u00a0I would like to ask you a favor. \u00a0Get out on Twitter and “Follow” Tony Hernandez’ Twitter account. Tony’s\u00a0running for Congress in Minnesota’s Fourth CD\u00a0– my district, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,72,28],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-28420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-mngop","category-st-paul","tag-mn-cd4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28420","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=28420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28444,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28420\/revisions\/28444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}