{"id":29114,"date":"2012-07-24T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29114"},"modified":"2012-07-24T06:51:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T11:51:19","slug":"lets-flip-that-conventional-wisdom-on-its-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29114","title":{"rendered":"Alida Will Not Be Amused"},"content":{"rendered":"

More results from the Survey USA poll from yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I gotta confess, this one surprised me. \u00a0Conventional wisdom has it that the Left’s suffocating blanket of spending and publicity, as well as the purported apathy of many voters to the issue, would scupper the Marriage Amendment.<\/p>\n

According to this poll – which, remember, oversampled Democrats, 38 to 32% – it’s just not so:<\/p>\n

An amendment to the Minnesota Constitution on the ballot defines marriage as between one man and one woman. Will you vote FOR the amendment? Against the amendment? Or not vote on the measure?<\/p>\n

52% Vote For<\/p>\n

37% Vote Against<\/p>\n

5% Not Vote<\/p>\n

6% Not Sure<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remember, “No answer” counts as a “no” on Constitutional votes in Minnesota. \u00a0So let’s say these results hold up ’til election day, and that every single <\/em>“Not Sure” response in this poll ends up voting “no” or not voting (which won’t happen); the measure passes 52-48.<\/p>\n

This, I did not expect.<\/p>\n

And I’m a tad gratified to see that the poll shows people seem to be resisting, broadly, the DFL’s torrent of lies and innuendo about the Voter ID Amendment:<\/p>\n

An amendment to the Minnesota Constitution on the ballot would require voters to show photo I.D.’s in order to vote on Election Day. Will you vote FOR the amendment? Against the amendment? Or not vote on the measure?<\/p>\n

65% Vote For<\/p>\n

28% Vote Against<\/p>\n

2% Not Vote<\/p>\n

4% Not Sure<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If the “Fors” stay put, and every single “Not Sure” votes against it (again, not gonna happen), the measure passes by almost 2:1.<\/p>\n

While gay marriage isn’t an issue I care much about – I support civil unions – I’m glad to see that on at least a couple of issues, according to one mildly-DFL-leaning and slightly DFL-oversampled poll, the DFL’s huge, expensive, and slimy propaganda war seems at this moment to be crapping out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More results from the Survey USA poll from yesterday. I gotta confess, this one surprised me. \u00a0Conventional wisdom has it that the Left’s suffocating blanket of spending and publicity, as well as the purported apathy of many voters to the issue, would scupper the Marriage Amendment. According to this poll – which, remember, oversampled Democrats, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,24,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-culture-war","category-election-integrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29114","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=29114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29119,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29114\/revisions\/29119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}