{"id":87111,"date":"2024-03-06T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87111"},"modified":"2024-03-06T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T16:24:41","slug":"primary-motivations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87111","title":{"rendered":"Primary Motivations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the one hand, I think optimism is extremely premature for Republicans.   While some polling is showing deep divides in the Democrat party, we&#8217;ve heard this tune more that &#8220;Freebird&#8221; on KQRS.  Democrats may kvetch and moan &#8211; they whined about <em>Bill Clinton<\/em> &#8211; but they, being essentially herd animals, always &#8220;come home&#8221; at election time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it looks like a lot of them will have to come home a looooong way this fall:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-06-at-6.33.18-AM-1024x280.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87112\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-06-at-6.33.18-AM-1024x280.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-06-at-6.33.18-AM-300x82.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-06-at-6.33.18-AM-768x210.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-06-at-6.33.18-AM-1536x420.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-06-at-6.33.18-AM-500x137.png 500w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-06-at-6.33.18-AM.png 1829w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Uncommitted&#8221; takes almost 20% of the DFL primary vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that was only the half of it:<\/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\">From the precinct at Coyle Community Center across from Riverside Plaza in Little Mogadishu: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RYSPMYxNGz\">pic.twitter.com\/RYSPMYxNGz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; John Paul Bunyan (@NorFoulFiend) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NorFoulFiend\/status\/1765247088332316861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks bad for Biden?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For now, sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But don&#8217;t get fooled &#8211; they&#8217;ll get goaded, logrolled, gaslit, threatened, or just talk themselves back into line this fall.  Trump (who easily skated through the GOP contest) will have a hard go it it, nationwide and here in Minnesota.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, I think optimism is extremely premature for Republicans. While some polling is showing deep divides in the Democrat party, we&#8217;ve heard this tune more that &#8220;Freebird&#8221; on KQRS. Democrats may kvetch and moan &#8211; they whined about Bill Clinton &#8211; but they, being essentially herd animals, always &#8220;come home&#8221; at election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87111","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=87111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87113,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87111\/revisions\/87113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}