{"id":39614,"date":"2013-11-06T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39614"},"modified":"2013-11-06T07:38:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T13:38:54","slug":"the-wages-of-horner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39614","title":{"rendered":"The Wages Of Horner"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Virginia last night, the Republican and Libertarian votes together totalled 53% – including about 8% for the Libertarian candidate. \u00a0Macauliffe got 47%.<\/p>\n

Now, not every Libertarian votes Republican – but it’s a safe bet that most of the Libertarian voters in Virginia – a state where the Libertarian party has barely gotten into single digits in the recent past – were more likely to vote Republican than Democrat.<\/p>\n

And Republicans are pointing out that this – the Democrats pumping big money into spoilers that undercut the GOP vote<\/a> – is the wave of the future.<\/p>\n

And like so many of the most noxious trends in current politics, it got its start here in Minnesota, where in 2010 Mark Dayton was saved by a concerted Democrat effort to peel off Republicans to fake Republican Tom Horner.<\/p>\n

Horner got 10% of the vote – just enough more of them from Republicans to hand the race to Dayton.<\/p>\n

Minnesota’s past, America’s future?<\/p>\n

Perhaps.<\/p>\n

Path for Minnesota “libertarian” candidates to get into that Bentley they’ve been looking at in the next election?<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Virginia last night, the Republican and Libertarian votes together totalled 53% – including about 8% for the Libertarian candidate. \u00a0Macauliffe got 47%. Now, not every Libertarian votes Republican – but it’s a safe bet that most of the Libertarian voters in Virginia – a state where the Libertarian party has barely gotten into single […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39614","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=39614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39617,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39614\/revisions\/39617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}