{"id":3500,"date":"2008-10-20T06:55:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T11:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2010-11-03T22:56:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T03:56:11","slug":"good-news-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3500","title":{"rendered":"Good News For Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Poll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/31234349.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7EaDiaMDCiUT\">shows The Obamessiah ahead by double digits.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The poll, conducted Thursday and Friday, found that Obama is supported by 52 percent of likely voters, while 41 percent are backing McCain. The results show that while McCain has cut into Obama&#8217;s 18-point lead from two weeks ago, it&#8217;s not enough to move Minnesota back into the toss-up column, as it was immediately after the Republican National Convention was held in St. Paul in early September.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Experience <\/em>says when the Minnesota Poll shows a huge DFL lead alone among polls, it most likely means it&#8217;s pretty close to the margin of error, DFLers are scared, and the MNPoll is doing it&#8217;s best to coax Republicans into staying home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patterico.com\/2008\/10\/17\/dont-believe-the-hype-in-the-press-this-one-aint-over-the-polls-tell-the-story\/\">Sort of like they&#8217;re doing nationwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t believe the hype, Republicans.\u00a0 It&#8217;s gonna be a tough election &#8211; but the media and Democrats (pardon the redundancy) want you to believe it&#8217;s hopeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Poll shows The Obamessiah ahead by double digits. The poll, conducted Thursday and Friday, found that Obama is supported by 52 percent of likely voters, while 41 percent are backing McCain. The results show that while McCain has cut into Obama&#8217;s 18-point lead from two weeks ago, it&#8217;s not enough to move Minnesota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics","tag-polling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","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=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15038,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions\/15038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}