{"id":79538,"date":"2021-09-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79538"},"modified":"2021-09-20T08:45:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:45:45","slug":"selective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79538","title":{"rendered":"Selective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Iowa governor Kim Reynolds\u2019s approval rating has been moving up well into positive territory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current polls in the Des Moines register show 53% of Iowans approve of her job, while 43 do not &#8211; which, at +10, pretty decent ratio in this very polarized society.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/politics\/iowa-poll\/2021\/09\/18\/iowa-poll-kim-reynolds-ratings-up-education-economy-down-covid\/8378073002\/\">The article in the Des Moines Register<\/a> is actually fairly comprehensive about reporting the story.<\/p>\n<p>With one exception.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead, read it.<\/p>\n<p>In what paragraph this very favorable story is the governors party mentioned?<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Answer below the jump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<p>It isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The name of the party is mentioned with regard to one of the respondents interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Governor Reynolds\u2019s party affiliation doesn\u2019t turn up anywhere in the article, for some reason.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Why do you suppose that would be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NOTE:   An &#8220;upgrade&#8221; to WordPress mangled the bejeebers out of the first take on this post.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blah .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa governor Kim Reynolds\u2019s approval rating has been moving up well into positive territory. Current polls in the Des Moines register show 53% of Iowans approve of her job, while 43 do not &#8211; which, at +10, pretty decent ratio in this very polarized society. The article in the Des Moines Register is actually fairly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79538","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=79538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79546,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79538\/revisions\/79546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}