{"id":4652,"date":"2009-04-27T06:31:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T11:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2010-11-03T22:55:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T03:55:29","slug":"minnesota-poll-most-want-coleman-to-call-it-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4652","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Poll: Most want Coleman to call it quits"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ignored the first two words of the following headline…<\/p>\n

Minnesota Poll: Most want Coleman to call it quits<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…then it’d seem almost as damning as\u00a0 the story’s lede<\/a><\/p>\n

Nearly two-thirds of Minnesotans surveyed think Norm Coleman should concede the U.S. Senate race to Al Franken, but just as many believe the voting system that gave the state its longest running election contest needs improvement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But those first two words – Minnesota Poll – are in fact dispositive.\u00a0 These polls exist solely to provide aid and comfort to DFLers.\u00a0 Their fifteen year history is one of ludicrous overrepresentation of DFLers – usually right when some discouragement of the opposition is needed.<\/p>\n

Thul<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Election night results<\/a> for MN Senate race-<\/p>\n

Independent Dean Barkley 15.15%
\nRepublican Norm Coleman 42.98%
\nDemocrat Al Franken 42.99%<\/p>\n

Party preference results<\/a> from new StarTribune poll-
\nRepublicans 20%
\nDemocrat 36%
\nIndependent 37%<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Every time I start to think that maybe big media’s argument against shutting down – “we need to keep government honest” – might just <\/em>make some sense, we get to situations like this, where it’s impossible to think the Strib’s mission is anything but electing Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you ignored the first two words of the following headline… Minnesota Poll: Most want Coleman to call it quits …then it’d seem almost as damning as\u00a0 the story’s lede Nearly two-thirds of Minnesotans surveyed think Norm Coleman should concede the U.S. Senate race to Al Franken, but just as many believe the voting system […]<\/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":[120],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","tag-polling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","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=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15035,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions\/15035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}