{"id":60994,"date":"2016-11-16T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60994"},"modified":"2016-11-13T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T18:09:57","slug":"two-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60994","title":{"rendered":"Two Cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@mjp4liberty\/unpacking-jason-lewis-win-in-mn-cd2-9ef3918c577b#.kpez2p77y\">brief-ish article about Jason Lewis&#8217;s &#8220;upset&#8221; win<\/a> in the 2nd CD by the always astute Matt Pagano.<\/p>\n<p>You should read the whole thing, but here&#8217;s the good-news takeaway:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"7c67\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">One more (extremely local) angle is that Lewis\u2019 win will likely help revitalize the CD2 Republican Party. In the past few years, the local Party had come to be defined by infighting between opponents, and loyalists, to incumbent Rep. John Kline. Lewis\u2019 election offers the opportunity to move past the Republican-on-Republican violence within the local Republican parties that has raged the past few cycles. If you\u2019re a conservative activist who isn\u2019t happy with Jason Lewis as your Congressman, you ain\u2019t never gonna be happy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>https:\/\/medium.com\/@mjp4liberty\/unpacking-jason-lewis-win-in-mn-cd2-9ef3918c577b#.kpez2p77y<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief-ish article about Jason Lewis&#8217;s &#8220;upset&#8221; win in the 2nd CD by the always astute Matt Pagano. You should read the whole thing, but here&#8217;s the good-news takeaway: One more (extremely local) angle is that Lewis\u2019 win will likely help revitalize the CD2 Republican Party. In the past few years, the local Party had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,2,155],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-60994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-congressional","tag-mn-cd2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60994","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=60994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60995,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60994\/revisions\/60995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}