{"id":3305,"date":"2008-09-14T06:29:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T11:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2008-09-14T06:40:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T11:40:55","slug":"purple-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3305","title":{"rendered":"Purple Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. Not the Vikings. They&#8217;re dead to me after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1998_Minnesota_Vikings_season\">1998<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/president\/28353589.html\">Minnesota Poll: Obama, McCain are dead even in state<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The poll found that McCain has made gains across the board since a May Minnesota Poll that showed him trailing by 13 points. He has picked up considerable support among men and to a lesser degree among women. He also has boosted his standing with whites, young voters and all levels of household income and education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to think about a poll from the Strib that shows a dead heat between their annointed One and the guy who can&#8217;t thumb an email.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2008\/president\/mn\/minnesota_mccain_vs_obama-550.html#polls\">RCP<\/a>\u00a0lists Minnesota as +7.0% for\u00a0Senator Obama\u00a0as of\u00a0September 2.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota a Purple State according to the Red Rag? Does this mean McCain is doing <em>even better<\/em> than tied with Obammy?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=ZDI2NDFlYmQwNDMwMDI5ZjE1MWMwNjI0NjdkMzhmODQ=\">and on McCain&#8217;s choice of Sarah Palin<\/a> v. Obama&#8217;s choice of Biden?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>&#8230;John McCain&#8217;s choice of Sarah Palin has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveyusa.com\/client\/PollReport.aspx?g=53a0e647-ae6a-447a-8dba-7481e63b7f44\">moved independent voters towards the GOP ticket<\/a>, while Obama&#8217;s choice of Joe Biden has bombed.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If Minnesota becomes a Red state, can Iowa and Wisconsin be far behind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. Not the Vikings. They&#8217;re dead to me after 1998. It&#8217;s this: Minnesota Poll: Obama, McCain are dead even in state The poll found that McCain has made gains across the board since a May Minnesota Poll that showed him trailing by 13 points. He has picked up considerable support among men and to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3305","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\/3305","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}