{"id":3352,"date":"2008-09-23T05:33:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T10:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2008-09-23T05:33:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T10:33:37","slug":"well-that-was-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3352","title":{"rendered":"Well, That Was Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s short-lived bid to be the first Democrat to win North Dakota since Democrats became America-Lasters has apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/She declined to say how many campaign workers were being shifted, but other Democratic activists put the number at more than 50. Obama has opened 11 North Dakota campaign offices and run television advertising in the state, which is unusual for a Democratic presidential candidate.\">disappeared into one of those deep prairie snowdrifts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">[Obama staff spokesbeing Amy Brundage] declined to say how many campaign workers were being shifted, but other Democratic activists put the number at more than 50. Obama has opened 11 North Dakota campaign offices and run television advertising in the state, which is unusual for a Democratic presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">McCain&#8217;s campaign has no paid staff or offices in North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">The Obama campaign&#8217;s decision comes just before North Dakotans will begin marking early ballots for the Nov. 4 election. Absentee voting may start as early as Thursday, and county auditors have reported getting thousands of ballot applications.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">Hm.\u00a0 Who predicted this?<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">Why yes.\u00a0 It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2954\">me<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">And who did <em>not<\/em>?\u00a0 Why, <a href=\"http:\/\/centrisity.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/nodak-up-for-grabs.html\">him<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/view\/obama-v-mccain-could\">him<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">Not to say a Democrat could <em>never <\/em>win NoDak.\u00a0 Just not any of the Democrats currently in the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s short-lived bid to be the first Democrat to win North Dakota since Democrats became America-Lasters has apparently disappeared into one of those deep prairie snowdrifts: [Obama staff spokesbeing Amy Brundage] declined to say how many campaign workers were being shifted, but other Democratic activists put the number at more than 50. Obama has [&hellip;]<\/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-3352","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\/3352","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=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}