{"id":56058,"date":"2015-11-10T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56058"},"modified":"2015-11-09T13:05:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T19:05:01","slug":"enter-horserace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56058","title":{"rendered":"Enter Horserace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the usual stipulations apply; it&#8217;s a year before the election, and the polling so far pits\u00a0one candidate with\u00a0with near-universal\u00a0name recognition against a bunch of unknowns who just represent ideals (and one celebrity). \u00a0The unknowns have no negatives; most voters barely know their names.<\/p>\n<p>With all the caveats out-of-the-way? The\u00a0latest KSTP poll\u00a0\u2013 which has\u00a0tended in recent cycles to be the better poll of Minnesota&#8217;s preferences \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/article\/stories\/S3956994.shtml?cat=12681\">shows Hillary losing to pretty much any GOP nominee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Which has to be a smack upside the head for an &#8220;inevitable&#8221; candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP candidates will get negavies &#8211; especially once the Democrat noise machine starts sounding off.<\/p>\n<p>Still &#8211; not what I expected at this stage of the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the usual stipulations apply; it&#8217;s a year before the election, and the polling so far pits\u00a0one candidate with\u00a0with near-universal\u00a0name recognition against a bunch of unknowns who just represent ideals (and one celebrity). \u00a0The unknowns have no negatives; most voters barely know their names. With all the caveats out-of-the-way? The\u00a0latest KSTP poll\u00a0\u2013 which has\u00a0tended in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56058","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=56058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56067,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56058\/revisions\/56067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}