{"id":88280,"date":"2024-09-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88280"},"modified":"2024-09-04T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T19:46:07","slug":"a-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88280","title":{"rendered":"A Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kamala Harris&#8217;s choice of Tim Walz for her running mate appears to be hurting her&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/01\/us-news\/tim-walz-is-hurting-kamala-harris-in-minnesota-poll\/\">in <em>Minnesota<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Only 52% of Minnesota voters see him as an excellent or good choice, with 12% saying he\u2019s a fair selection, and a staggering 34% saying he\u2019s a poor pick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walz is underwater with men, with 49% approving of his selection and 50% opposing it. About 40% of male respondents called him a poor choice of running mate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voters under the age of 35, a key demographic Harris needs in November, also aren\u2019t enthusiastic: 49% called Walz an excellent or good pick; the other 51% regarded him unfavorably. These voters make up 25% of the anticipated November electorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walz is also one percentage point underwater with parents, with 48% regarding him favorably and 49% panning the pick. Among people with children, 35% say he was a poor selection.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>And who knows him better than the people he&#8217;s been governing, badly and opaquely, for six years?<\/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\">Tim Walz&#39;s family members in Nebraska are voting for Trump. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CmBrx1APMm\">pic.twitter.com\/CmBrx1APMm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWolking\/status\/1831324280489152741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Dem howler monkeys big takeaway from this photo is that they botched the apostrophes.   <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As one local wag put it&#8230;:<\/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\">This is like when your fiance&#39;s sister pulls you aside and whispers, &quot;Don&#39;t marry him. He&#39;s really not a good guy.&quot; Pay attention to the people who know. Minnesota knows Walz.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L0FKnMRmrh\">https:\/\/t.co\/L0FKnMRmrh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annbauerwriter\/status\/1831080032133132550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leave him at the door, America.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris&#8217;s choice of Tim Walz for her running mate appears to be hurting her&#8230; &#8230;in Minnesota: And who knows him better than the people he&#8217;s been governing, badly and opaquely, for six years? As one local wag put it&#8230;: What she said. Leave him at the door, America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20,320],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-88280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats","category-mndfl","tag-walz-for-vp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88280","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=88280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88281,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88280\/revisions\/88281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}