{"id":61031,"date":"2016-11-18T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61031"},"modified":"2016-11-18T19:29:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T01:29:37","slug":"to-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61031","title":{"rendered":"To Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Minnesota, the DFL lost its majority in the Senate, and were reduced in the House. \u00a0 It’s a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n

To look at what is possible, though?<\/p>\n

In North Dakota, the Democrat-NPL party was reduced on election night from “minority” to “barely there”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And it’s a very very wonderful\u00a0thing:<\/p>\n

The shellacking North Dakota\u2019s Democrats got on election day is absolutely the fault of [state DFL chair Kylie] Oversen and the candidates Democrats put on the ballot this cycle. They saw not a single statewide candidate get over 30 percent of the vote while in the Legislature they lost their House and Senate leaders, their party chairwoman, and now have just nine seats in the state Senate and just 13 in the House.<\/p>\n

For those of you keeping score at home, that\u2019s not enough elected members of the Legislature for Democrats to cover all of their committee assignments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, MInnesota liberals have been taking it on faith that, since wildcat drilling has stalled, the state must be in freefall. \u00a0If that were true, the opposite would have likely happened on election night. \u00a0Right?<\/p>\n

Right?<\/p>\n

Well, no – North Dakota’s 3% unemployment rate remains a solid point below Minnesota’s low rate of 4%<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By the way, congratulations to North Dakota’s governor-elect, Doug Burgum<\/a>, the former CEO of “Great Plains Software”, the little software shop that could; it was purchased by Microsoft in the 2000s, and has become Redmond’s biggest campus outside of Washington State.<\/p>\n

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And, I should add, congrats to North Dakota’s new First Lady, my high school classmate Kathy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Minnesota, the DFL lost its majority in the Senate, and were reduced in the House. \u00a0 It’s a wonderful thing. To look at what is possible, though? In North Dakota, the Democrat-NPL party was reduced on election night from “minority” to “barely there”. And it’s a very very wonderful\u00a0thing: The shellacking North Dakota\u2019s Democrats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61031","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=61031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61050,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61031\/revisions\/61050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}