{"id":3262,"date":"2008-09-08T07:41:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T12:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2008-09-08T07:42:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T12:42:48","slug":"a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3262","title":{"rendered":"A Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Collins over at NewsCut is going to be liveblogging MPR’s “Midmorning” show<\/a>. The subject?:<\/p>\n

Does a candidate’s gender really<\/em> make a difference? That’s one of the questions we’re exploring this morning during the first hour of MPR’s Midmorning<\/a>. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A better question, perhaps – to whom<\/em> does it make a difference?<\/p>\n

How many Hillary Clinton supporters out there want to vote for a woman – any<\/em> woman? (Check out the podcast of Ed and my broadcast from the convention last Thursday, with the two Hillary supporters who’d switched to Palin while driving home from the DNC).<\/p>\n

Still – read some of the “feminist” response to Palin’s nomination; it seems the only “gender” issue that matters to most of them is abortion.<\/p>\n

Ironically, among the base at whom Palin was really <\/em>aimed – the Reagan coalition of 1980 – Palin could have been male, female, black, Hindu, or damn near anything, as long as he\/she conveyed the three emerging messages of this campaign:<\/p>\n

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  1. Flyover land matters<\/li>\n
  2. The GOP needs to be the party of integrity<\/li>\n
  3. America – *%$$ yeah!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (Along with “Drill oil, split atoms, create energy”, of course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Bob Collins over at NewsCut is going to be liveblogging MPR’s “Midmorning” show. The subject?: Does a candidate’s gender really make a difference? That’s one of the questions we’re exploring this morning during the first hour of MPR’s Midmorning. A better question, perhaps – to whom does it make a difference? How many Hillary Clinton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-men-and-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262","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=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}