{"id":47583,"date":"2014-10-01T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47583"},"modified":"2014-10-19T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T21:22:05","slug":"for-those-tired-of-that-smoke-up-their-skirt-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47583","title":{"rendered":"For Those Tired Of That “Smoke Up Their Skirt” Feeling."},"content":{"rendered":"

Daytonomics<\/strong> –\u00a0a noun, referring to economic conditions that look rosy on the surface, but worse and worse the more one examines them. \u00a0See also: “Potemkin”. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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The DFL is running the bulk of their state campaigns – the Legislature, the Constitutional Officers and Governor – on the notion that two years of Daytonomics have left Minnesota an economic powerhouse.<\/p>\n

Like squatters who move into an “Architectural Digest” house, there’s still some zing in the state’s economic elevator pitch – leftovers from ten years of at least partial GOP stewardship.<\/p>\n

But under the surface?<\/p>\n

There are three signs that the various editorial boards are doing their level best to avoid, or at the most downplay:<\/p>\n