{"id":75184,"date":"2020-09-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75184"},"modified":"2020-09-01T07:46:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T12:46:29","slug":"away-from-the-margins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75184","title":{"rendered":"Away From The Margins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Are there still “independent” voters out there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t think I’ve called myself “independent” since my 20s. Most people I know are pretty strongly aligned, although “my social circle” is a self-selecting set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they apparently exist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s stipulate in advance – any poll taken before Labor Day is pretty useless. Any poll taken before mid-October is suspect. And as we saw in 2016, all polls are potentially delusional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That being said – the Dems can’t be liking what this poll tells us<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked who they would vote for if the election were being held today, 47% of independents said that they would vote for Trump and 37% said they would vote for Biden, the\u00a0poll<\/a>\u00a0showed. Another 5% said that they weren\u2019t sure who they would vote for and 11% said that they would vote third-party or vote for someone other than Trump or Biden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I’m gonna guess that, and not Mayor McDreamy and Governor Klink growing spines, is what brought the Guard out to Nicollet Mall last week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are there still “independent” voters out there? I don’t think I’ve called myself “independent” since my 20s. Most people I know are pretty strongly aligned, although “my social circle” is a self-selecting set. But they apparently exist. Let’s stipulate in advance – any poll taken before Labor Day is pretty useless. Any poll taken before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75184","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=75184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75185,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75184\/revisions\/75185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}