{"id":4816,"date":"2009-05-22T05:49:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T10:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2009-05-22T05:49:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T10:49:21","slug":"oh-please-please-please-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4816","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Please.  Please, Please Please."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: Minnesota D&#8221;F&#8221;L<\/p>\n<p>From: Mitch Berg, keen analyst of satire.<\/p>\n<p>Re: <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/35325\/kstp-poll-dayton-fares-best-against-pawlenty\">Dayton&#8217;s showing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear DFL,<\/p>\n<p>Please, please please &#8211; take these results and run with them for next year.\u00a0 I beg of you.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton comes closest to out-polling Gov. Tim Pawlenty in a theoretical match-up in the 2010 governor\u2019s contest, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/kstpImages\/PollPrint%5B1%5D1.pdf\"><strong><font color=\"#3f4f21\">new SurveyUSA poll<\/font><\/strong><\/a> commissioned by KSTP (Channel 5).\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hereby promise I&#8217;ll give $50 to ACORN or International ANSWER or the Comintern or the Symbionese Liberation Army or <em>whatever <\/em>charity you folks are supporting these days if you please, <em>please<\/em>\u00a0 run with this poll.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Minnesota D&#8221;F&#8221;L From: Mitch Berg, keen analyst of satire. Re: Dayton&#8217;s showing Dear DFL, Please, please please &#8211; take these results and run with them for next year.\u00a0 I beg of you. Former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton comes closest to out-polling Gov. Tim Pawlenty in a theoretical match-up in the 2010 governor\u2019s contest, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","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=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}