{"id":10267,"date":"2010-04-22T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T20:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10267"},"modified":"2011-10-20T10:29:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:29:48","slug":"shades-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10267","title":{"rendered":"Shades Of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

The below is not <\/em>a fearless prediction.\u00a0 Call it a hunch.<\/p>\n

If you live in the Second Congressional District, you know <\/em>John Kline is going to win; if Shelly Madore wins the primary, Kline – even in a bad year, like 2008 – would win by 15 points, conservatively, and this won’t be a bad year for Kline.\u00a0 If “Powers<\/a>” survives, it’ll be 30-40 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you live in the Third, it might be a little closer; Paulsen’s got a tailwind, and had a great freshman term.\u00a0 DFL-endorsed candidate Jim Meffert is a solid 10 point dog, and I think that’s being nice.<\/p>\n

Likewise in the Sixth; Michele Bachmann, who won two squeakers against a full court press from not only the regional left and media (pardon, as always, the\u00a0 redundancy)\u00a0but the national<\/em> ones, during two terrible <\/em>years for Republicans, is going to win by a comfortable ten points, no matter which victim the DFL nominates.<\/p>\n

Of course, the DFL pays it all back in the Fourth, Fifth and Eighth districts were, even when the GOP comes up with a strong candidate (as the Fourth District GOP did in endorsing Teresa Collett this past weekend), the media colludes to make sure that Keith Ellison, Betty “Dissent Is Violence!” McCollum and Jim Oberstar are never held accountable for any of their actions, even if knowing them would convince the overwhelmingly-DFL constituencies to vote otherwise, which seems doubtful at times.<\/p>\n

But in the First?\u00a0 Tim Walz, who ran as a “moderate” DFLer to unseat moderate Republican Gil Gutknecht in 2006, but has spent his entire term in office as Nancy Pelosi’s ultraliberal lapdog, and voted for the Obamacare plan that is pretty sure to gut the health care for most of the First’s residents, and gut-shoot the Mayo Clinic, has got <\/em>to be vulnerable.\u00a0 Randy Demmer is a strong candidate who survived a bruising convention (seven ballots last weekend) for the chance to run against Walz.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So here’s what I’m asking; if you live in the Second, Third or Sixth Districts, it’d be great <\/em>to run up a huge score on the Dems.\u00a0 Heck, it’d be great to knock ’em into third-party territory!\u00a0<\/p>\n

But if you could see your way clear to spare a few bucks to send to the First, to help Demmer overcome his cash deficit, that’d be a great start.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And if you have\u00a0 few bucks to spare to help Teresa Collett <\/a>in the Fourth, and Chip Cravaack <\/a>in the Eighth<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 Yep, I know – Randy Demmer.\u00a0 I was thinking of another Demmer I knew way back when.\u00a0 My bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The below is not a fearless prediction.\u00a0 Call it a hunch. If you live in the Second Congressional District, you know John Kline is going to win; if Shelly Madore wins the primary, Kline – even in a bad year, like 2008 – would win by 15 points, conservatively, and this won’t be a bad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,155],"tags":[160,161],"class_list":["post-10267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-congressional","tag-mn-cd1","tag-mn-cd2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10267"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23789,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267\/revisions\/23789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}