{"id":87557,"date":"2024-05-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87557"},"modified":"2024-05-17T05:50:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T10:50:30","slug":"about-that-henco-district-6-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87557","title":{"rendered":"About That Henco District 6 Special Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Heather &#8220;Lawnmower Barbie&#8221; Edelson, <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/dfler-edelson-wins-special-election-in-hennepin-county-over-conservative-simonetti\/\">beat<\/a> Marisa Simonetti, 54-45.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words:  A woman with near 100% name recognition, especially among people who come out for special elections, beat someone nobody had heard of three weeks before the election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By nine points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a district Keith Ellison won by 20, and Governor Klink by 30:<\/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\">Edelson comes in as the heavy favorite tonight as a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MinnesotaDFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MinnesotaDFL<\/a> candidate in Hennepin County&#39;s 6th District. Here are the 2022 percentage point margins within the district:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Walz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tim_Walz<\/a> +29.93<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGEllison?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AGEllison<\/a> +19.42<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MNSteveSimon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MNSteveSimon<\/a> +30.95<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/julieblaha?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@julieblaha<\/a> +18.92<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryMoriarty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MaryMoriarty<\/a> +1.08 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q3ZWMiLzoV\">https:\/\/t.co\/Q3ZWMiLzoV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MN Political Data\/Finance (@polidatamn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/polidatamn\/status\/1790531902069223607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;ll be another round in November.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the district is a little less &#8220;blue&#8221; than most of Hennepin County, this can&#8217;t be great news for the DFL headed into the fall <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather &#8220;Lawnmower Barbie&#8221; Edelson, beat Marisa Simonetti, 54-45. In other words: A woman with near 100% name recognition, especially among people who come out for special elections, beat someone nobody had heard of three weeks before the election. By nine points. In a district Keith Ellison won by 20, and Governor Klink by 30: There&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,16,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-conservatism","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87557","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=87557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87558,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87557\/revisions\/87558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}