{"id":48074,"date":"2014-10-14T12:36:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T17:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48074"},"modified":"2014-11-28T04:42:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T10:42:30","slug":"the-incredible-imploding-steve-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48074","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Imploding Steve Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"

DFL Secretary of State candidate Steve Simon hasn’t had the easiest time of it.<\/p>\n

First, he barely squeaked through his own DFL primary – getting 42% against a longtime perennial candidate and a future perennial candidate, in a primary race that should have been a coronation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, he’s up against Dan Severson, a candidate with – alone among the MNGOP’s state office candidates – high name recognition, from a previous SecState and Senate run.\u00a0 Severson is also the single prominent Republican who’s made a significant priority of reaching out to Latino, H’Mong, Somali and other immigrants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rumors – and that’s all I have to go by so far, but they’re from fairly reliable sources – indicate that internal polling in both <\/em>parties show that Severson is the only statewide GOP candidate to lead <\/em>in the polls a month before the election.<\/p>\n

The DFL reaction was predictable; the facts against them, they went for the sleaze.\u00a0 The “progressive” alt-media’s attempt to paint Severson as a confederate sympathizer <\/a>because of the color scheme on his lawn signs was not only idiotic, but transparently desperate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s only getting worse for Simon.<\/p>\n

Vote Suppression!<\/strong> – This morning, Severson held a press conference in which he pointed out the known fact that 5% of Minnesota’s servicepeople and their families serving overseas get their votes counted – a travesty – and that…:<\/p>\n