{"id":48268,"date":"2014-10-20T12:20:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T17:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48268"},"modified":"2021-07-14T14:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:31:58","slug":"evidence-in-the-affirmative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48268","title":{"rendered":"Evidence In The Affirmative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we reported that a KSTP\/Survey USA poll shows Stewart Mills leading Rick Nolan by eight points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=25707\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25707\" title=\"DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png 320w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve noted for years and years, polls are deeply imperfect (sorry, Nate Silver), and there&#8217;s only one poll that matters, and it&#8217;s coming up two weeks from tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>But if there were any evidence needed that Rick Nolan is nervous about his prospects, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2014\/10\/19\/interview-rep-rick-nolan-discusses-money-in-politics-isis-guns\/\">yesterday&#8217;s interview with Esme Murphy on WCCO<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which he spent sniveling like a four-year-old who didn&#8217;t get ice cream about outside money&#8217;s effect on politics.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently he&#8217;s feeling cut out of the DCCC&#8217;s flood of Franken money&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Courtesty @JohnHockey on Twitter)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mitchpberg\">@mitchpberg<\/a> surest sign <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StewartMillsMN\">@StewartMillsMN<\/a> is winning in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MN08?src=hash\">#MN08<\/a> &#8211; Esme Murphy had Rick Nolan on today to whine about outside money in politics.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Quast (@JohnQHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnQHockey\/status\/523991046733447168\">October 20, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we reported that a KSTP\/Survey USA poll shows Stewart Mills leading Rick Nolan by eight points. As we&#8217;ve noted for years and years, polls are deeply imperfect (sorry, Nate Silver), and there&#8217;s only one poll that matters, and it&#8217;s coming up two weeks from tomorrow. But if there were any evidence needed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,130,189],"tags":[436,166],"class_list":["post-48268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth","tag-esme-murphy","tag-mn-cd8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48268","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=48268"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48279,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48268\/revisions\/48279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}