{"id":75761,"date":"2020-11-03T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75761"},"modified":"2020-11-03T05:58:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T11:58:52","slug":"consequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75761","title":{"rendered":"Consequence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to wonder, if you&#8217;re a conservatve in Minnesota, whether voting matters.  I&#8217;ve even heard that from some Third-Party and Never-Trumpers that &#8220;your GOP vote won&#8217;t matter in Minnesota, so <em>why not <\/em>vote third-party? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But while I, like all Minnesota conservatives, have had the Lucy Pulling the Football Away moment far too often, and I don&#8217;t really trust polls on either side of today&#8217;s questions, there are at least some indications that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/11\/02\/a-republican-senate-upset-could-be-coming-together-in-minnesota\/\">today&#8217;s vote does matter, a whole lot<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if (as my pessimism tells me is unlikely) Trump is ahead tonight, look for them &#8211; the Democrats and media &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/11\/red-mirage.php\">to try to undercut it.  They already are. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you&#8217;re a Conservative \/ Republican, get out and vote as if they&#8217;re going to be trying to lock us up if we lose.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/what-a-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-would-actually-look-like\/\">Which, it seems, they are<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See you at the polls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to wonder, if you&#8217;re a conservatve in Minnesota, whether voting matters. I&#8217;ve even heard that from some Third-Party and Never-Trumpers that &#8220;your GOP vote won&#8217;t matter in Minnesota, so why not vote third-party? But while I, like all Minnesota conservatives, have had the Lucy Pulling the Football Away moment far too often, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75761","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=75761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75766,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75761\/revisions\/75766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}