{"id":75280,"date":"2020-09-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75280"},"modified":"2020-09-11T09:34:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T14:34:04","slug":"exuberance-rational-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75280","title":{"rendered":"Exuberance &#8211; Rational Or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To be a conservative in Minnesota (forget for a moment that neither Trump nor  today&#8217;s GOP are &#8220;conservative&#8221;) is to assume all hope is illusory, even a little bit cruel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet Biden and Harris are spending time here &#8211; a state that <em>should <\/em>be a gimme for them, at least at the Presidential level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hate to harbor hope.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrats Increasingly Concerned Trump Could Win Minnesota: &#39;It&#39;s Real. It&#39;s Absolutely Real&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Aie2jiy83\">https:\/\/t.co\/0Aie2jiy83<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BsloW8rB7q\">pic.twitter.com\/BsloW8rB7q<\/a><\/p>&mdash; WCCO | CBS News Minnesota (@WCCO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCCO\/status\/1303681626774347782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But sometimes I still do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be a conservative in Minnesota (forget for a moment that neither Trump nor today&#8217;s GOP are &#8220;conservative&#8221;) is to assume all hope is illusory, even a little bit cruel. And yet Biden and Harris are spending time here &#8211; a state that should be a gimme for them, at least at the Presidential level. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,2,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-minnesota-politics","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75280","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=75280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75281,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75280\/revisions\/75281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}