{"id":8017,"date":"2010-01-20T08:32:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T13:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2010-01-20T08:32:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T13:32:02","slug":"bag-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8017","title":{"rendered":"Bag This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, an arrogant GOP district committee tries to hand-pick a very blue candidate for a very purple district. Very red backlash comes up <em>barely <\/em>short, finishing up barely behind the Democrat, and going 3:1 against the very blue &#8220;Republican&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and the media and the lefty talkingpointbots portrayed it as a referendum <em>against conservatives<\/em> &#8211; one of which Dede Scozzafava was not.<\/p>\n<p>Today &#8211; uninspired Democrat committee picks a very blue candidate in <em>a very blue district<\/em>. A district that&#8217;s been in Democrat hands for two or three generations.\u00a0 She is upset by a <em>Republican<\/em>.\u00a0 One that came out of nowhere within the past month.<\/p>\n<p>Nope.\u00a0 No referendum there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, an arrogant GOP district committee tries to hand-pick a very blue candidate for a very purple district. Very red backlash comes up barely short, finishing up barely behind the Democrat, and going 3:1 against the very blue &#8220;Republican&#8221;&#8230; &#8230;and the media and the lefty talkingpointbots portrayed it as a referendum against conservatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017","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=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8019,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions\/8019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}