{"id":4300,"date":"2009-03-02T08:59:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T13:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2009-03-02T10:29:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T15:29:43","slug":"baghdad-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4300","title":{"rendered":"Baghdad Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPR&#8217;s Polinaut notes that former <strike>Ventura <\/strike>&#8220;Independence&#8221; Party candidate Dean Barkley <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/collections\/special\/columns\/polinaut\/archive\/2009\/02\/barkley_running.shtml\">is asking for help retiring his campaign debt.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barkley who got 17% in his Senate race against Coleman and Franken last November, hasn&#8217;t lost that old Indy Party sense of self-confidence-unto-the-the-point-of-delusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barkley said he would probably win the election if it were held today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps if a supply of uncounted votes from unicorns and gnomes would turn up in Duluth. Having &#8220;interviewed&#8221; Barkley during the last cycle, I think if more people met &#8220;the real Dean Barkley&#8221;, he might actually perform worse than he did last fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPR&#8217;s Polinaut notes that former Ventura &#8220;Independence&#8221; Party candidate Dean Barkley is asking for help retiring his campaign debt. Barkley who got 17% in his Senate race against Coleman and Franken last November, hasn&#8217;t lost that old Indy Party sense of self-confidence-unto-the-the-point-of-delusion: Barkley said he would probably win the election if it were held today. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300","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=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}