{"id":7987,"date":"2010-01-19T05:42:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T10:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7987"},"modified":"2010-01-19T05:42:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T10:42:49","slug":"hope-for-change-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7987","title":{"rendered":"Hope For Change, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Special election day in Massachusetts.\u00a0 Most of the polls are showing Scott Brown with a commanding lead<\/a> over Democrat Martha Coakley, who’s gone from (by some accounts) a 30 point lead in the fall to (by some others) a nine point deficit as of last night.<\/p>\n

Has she run a tone-deaf race?\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 Has she snatched defeat from the jaws of victory?\u00a0 It’s still possible she wins today – but the very thought of a Republican, even a Massachusetts Republican in the Romney mode, getting within 20 points of any <\/em>Democrat above room temperature for “Ted Kennedy’s seat” is a moral victory for the GOP.<\/p>\n

Some say “he’s not a conservative Republican”.\u00a0 For starters, it’s Massachusetts; “conservative” means different things in Massachusetts than it does in Wyoming – and I don’t think any rational person can say he’s running anywhere but to the right of, say, Susan Collins or Olympia Snowe, to say nothing of the hapless Dede Scozzafava.\u00a0 And he’s already vowed to vote conservative enough<\/em> on the issues that matter for purposes of this special election – especially on killing off the Democrat supermajority in the Senate.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake; the Dems are going to call in the clans on this one.\u00a0 The SEIU and ACORN have been flooding the state with workers.\u00a0 You can expect voter intimidation, a la <\/em>Philadelphia<\/a>.\u00a0 You can expect the usual crowd of media hamsters to try to shame people with the freshly-sainted memory of Ted Kennedy.<\/p>\n

But so far, 2010 is looking like a very good year.<\/p>\n

I’ll get back to you tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Special election day in Massachusetts.\u00a0 Most of the polls are showing Scott Brown with a commanding lead over Democrat Martha Coakley, who’s gone from (by some accounts) a 30 point lead in the fall to (by some others) a nine point deficit as of last night. Has she run a tone-deaf race?\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 Has she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987","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=7987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7988,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987\/revisions\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}