{"id":79586,"date":"2021-09-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79586"},"modified":"2021-09-24T09:21:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T14:21:28","slug":"coattails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79586","title":{"rendered":"Coattails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A &#8220;Minnesota&#8221; Poll &#8211; which ,as we&#8217;ve noted in the past, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/?p=15148\">historically favored Democrats<\/a>, sometimes to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/?p=15157\"> an absurd extent<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15162\">deeply suspicious<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30547\">one-sided<\/a> patterns, even after numerous reboots and changes in management and pollsters &#8211; shows Governor Walz under water:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gov. Tim Walz&#39;s approval dips below 50% in new Star Tribune\/MPR News\/KARE 11\/FRONTLINE Minnesota Poll. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kopUvIS639\">https:\/\/t.co\/kopUvIS639<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1441232167682678785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The  crosstabs are even more ominous for Walz, and show President Biden to be a bit of a drag down-ticket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fearless predictions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The <em>Strib<\/em>, Channels 4, 9 and 11,  and the rest of the media will switch into full PR mode for the DFL for the next 13 months.  Indeed, they have; Esme Murphy&#8217;s interview with Jennifer Carnahan &#8211; complete with the sort of on-air toenail-painting she normally reserves for DFLers &#8211; can be seen as nothing but an attempt to keep the MNGOP even more divided and impotent than normal. <\/li><li>MPR will be a little more artful about it &#8211; but the output from the DFL&#8217;s opposition research will get prominent placement. <\/li><li>And a quick reminder to Tom Hauser, perhaps the only genuinely detached journalist in Twin Cities TV or print news:  drapes don&#8217;t have shoes.  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to put a pin in this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;Minnesota&#8221; Poll &#8211; which ,as we&#8217;ve noted in the past, has historically favored Democrats, sometimes to an absurd extent with deeply suspicious and one-sided patterns, even after numerous reboots and changes in management and pollsters &#8211; shows Governor Walz under water: The crosstabs are even more ominous for Walz, and show President Biden to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,144,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-governor","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79586","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=79586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79587,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79586\/revisions\/79587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}