{"id":89707,"date":"2025-06-12T06:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89707"},"modified":"2025-06-12T06:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:45:55","slug":"the-numbers-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89707","title":{"rendered":"The Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The top-line number seems depressing, if you&#8217;re a Republican.  And the DFL wants to double that down while it can:<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/MinnesotaDFL\/status\/1932945176298745885\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I know, I know &#8211; it&#8217;s Survey USA.   They oversample metro voters and Democrats.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the second-tier result that&#8217;s interesting; on the question of whether he should run for Governor again:<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/thauserkstp\/status\/1932942948162781519\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s underwater among independents.\u00a0 I think that&#8217;s a first; for some reason, &#8220;independent&#8221; voters have had a thing for the little Mussolini.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So you can expect a huge PR effort to burnish his image as he tries to make that two year jump from 2026 to 2028 in\u00a0<em>some\u00a0<\/em>kind of office.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the biggest takeaway to me:\u00a0 you can ask youself who those 58% of idiots are.\u00a0 Even if you write off a few percent because it&#8217;s a SUSA poll, that still means his approval is way above water.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Which means that the &#8220;shut down the government and stick with\u00a0<em>pure conservative principle&#8221;<\/em> crowd &#8211;\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking at you, Action 4 Liberty &#8211; would be swimming up the PR stream from the word go, trying to convince voters of the merits of a government shutdown when <em>they still don&#8217;t see what national voters plainly saw<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just the messenger.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is there another way to look at this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top-line number seems depressing, if you&#8217;re a Republican. And the DFL wants to double that down while it can: I know, I know &#8211; it&#8217;s Survey USA. They oversample metro voters and Democrats. It&#8217;s the second-tier result that&#8217;s interesting; on the question of whether he should run for Governor again: He&#8217;s underwater among independents.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,144,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-26","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89707","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=89707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89708,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89707\/revisions\/89708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}