{"id":82938,"date":"2022-07-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82938"},"modified":"2022-07-27T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T14:46:00","slug":"asking-lightning-to-strike-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82938","title":{"rendered":"Asking Lightning To Strike Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>10 years ago, when economic times were fairly good (compared to 2008, anyway) and Barack Obama was on the ticket, the DFL went long on same-sex marriage, counting on it (and the big uptick it advantage) to blunt whatever remaining impact the tea party insurgency had had two years earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That year, social issues (and a presidential race) led the DFL to a sweep, taken control of both chambers of the legislature for two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DFL seems to be counting on the same thing happening again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have been tallying <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Walz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tim_Walz<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peggyflanagan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@peggyflanagan<\/a> abortion tweets. <br><br>Over last month&#8230;.<br><br>21 out of 59 WALZ TWEETS have been focused on ABORTION. <br><br>18 out of 37 PEGGY TWEETS were on the topic of ABORTION. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Nwj37DvyQ\">pic.twitter.com\/1Nwj37DvyQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MN Up North Lake Guy (@MNUpNorthLakeG1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MNUpNorthLakeG1\/status\/1552091308755410945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Governor, as well as Mr. Walz, have been leading in exceptionally hard on abortion (as well as a certain amount of whistling past the graveyard on the economy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they are already pouring money into TV ads.<\/p><p><\/p><p>Those internal polls must be really, really bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 years ago, when economic times were fairly good (compared to 2008, anyway) and Barack Obama was on the ticket, the DFL went long on same-sex marriage, counting on it (and the big uptick it advantage) to blunt whatever remaining impact the tea party insurgency had had two years earlier. That year, social issues (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-82938","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\/82938","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=82938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82939,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82938\/revisions\/82939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}