{"id":2954,"date":"2008-07-30T05:06:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T10:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2008-07-30T07:22:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T12:22:18","slug":"when-pigs-sing-aida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2954","title":{"rendered":"When Pigs Sing Aida<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Schmelzer at the Minnsoros “Independent”<\/em> seems to have been huffing cheap paint.<\/p>\n

Either that, or he’s getting spin from someone who has<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Ever since Ronald Reagan trounced Jimmy Carter in North Dakota in 1980 (64 to 26 percent), our neighbor to the west has reliably voted Republican<\/a> in presidential contests: a majority went for the GOP candidate every race at least the last six times. But two new polls suggest that could be changing.A Rasmussen poll two weeks ago show a dead heat<\/a> between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama (both garnered 43 percent of the vote). Now a new Research 2000 poll puts McCain with a slight edge: 45 to 42 percent<\/a>, with a margin of error of +\/- 4.5 percent (same as the Rasmussen poll). As of today, Pollster.com\u2019s average of polls still has Obama with a national lead over McCain, 47 to 41.9 percent<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Check your sampling. Five will get you ten they oversampled Grand Forks, Fargo and Minot – home, via UND, NDSU and Minot State – to 80% of the states’ 5,000 or so Democrats, including my Mom.<\/p>\n

North Dakota will ban shotguns and Coors before they opt for Obama, or any <\/em>liberal Democrat.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Schmelzer at the Minnsoros “Independent” seems to have been huffing cheap paint. Either that, or he’s getting spin from someone who has: Ever since Ronald Reagan trounced Jimmy Carter in North Dakota in 1980 (64 to 26 percent), our neighbor to the west has reliably voted Republican in presidential contests: a majority went for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","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=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}