{"id":30975,"date":"2012-10-10T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30975"},"modified":"2012-10-10T06:59:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T11:59:53","slug":"flaking-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30975","title":{"rendered":"Flaking, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, we addressed Aaron Brown’s look at HD6B, up on the Iron Range, where political newcomer Jesse Colangelo is running a helluvva race against DFL\/union kommissar Jason Metsa.<\/p>\n

Today – some older but equally intrigueing news that I just haven’t had time to get to; there is one precinct in Saint Paul that is ever-so-close to voting Republican.<\/p>\n

The Pioneer Press’ Frederick Melo reported on this a few weeks back<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The intersection of Cretin and Selby avenues is the heart of Ward 4, Precinct 6, a precinct that, like the other 96, mostly has long favored Democrats in local, state and national elections.<\/p>\n

But in this precinct, Republicans have managed to trim the Democrats’ lead by larger and larger numbers in the past 10 years and even chose Republican Sen. Norm Coleman over Democratic challenger Al Franken in 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Looking at the results at the SOS site, it’s one precinct where Tony Hernandez’ 2010 campaign came within eighit votes<\/a> of Senator Dick Cohen.<\/p>\n

Read the whole fascinating thing, assuming you didn’t a few weeks ago<\/p>\n

And then ask yourself – if a precinct in a moldy blue one-party city like Saint Paul – aka Pyongyang on the Mississipi – turns red, what does that mean?<\/p>\n

I mean, the fall of the Soviet Union started with protests in Gdansk – the Thunder Bay of the Baltic.<\/p>\n

From small things, big things one day come.<\/p>\n

(Optimistic? \u00a0If you’re not fundamentally an optimist, then there’s no point in being a Republican in St. Paul).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, we addressed Aaron Brown’s look at HD6B, up on the Iron Range, where political newcomer Jesse Colangelo is running a helluvva race against DFL\/union kommissar Jason Metsa. Today – some older but equally intrigueing news that I just haven’t had time to get to; there is one precinct in Saint Paul that is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mngop","category-republicans","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30975","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=30975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30985,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30975\/revisions\/30985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}