{"id":68270,"date":"2018-10-18T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68270"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T01:30:20","slug":"no-joementum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68270","title":{"rendered":"No Joementum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Joe Radinovich Campaign, stunned by polling that showed them slipping from a one point lead to being 15 point dogs, hit another bump on the campaign trail yesterday; J-Rad&#8217;s campaign manager has bailed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Meredith Raimondi has confirmed with Alpha News that she is no longer with Radinovich\u2019s campaign. Raimondi would not give any further details regarding her departure.<\/p>\n<p>Raimondi\u2019s exit is another setback amidst a difficult week for Radinovich\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewwagner\/status\/1052290667538468864\">cancelled $1.2 million in ads<\/a>\u00a0in the district, redirecting the funds to races that Democrats are more likely to win.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden loss in funding comes after a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/upshot\/elections-poll-mn08-3.html?module=inline\">New York Times poll<\/a>\u00a0that shows Radinovich\u2019s opponent, Republican Pete Stauber, up 15 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>The independent, non-partisan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/analysis\/house\/minnesota-house\/mn-08-rating-change-odds-gop-takeover-improve-iron-range\">Cook Political Report<\/a>\u00a0also weighed in on Radinovich\u2019s chances, downgrading the race from \u201cToss Up\u201d to the \u201cLean Republican\u201d on Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;d told me when I started my blog in 2002, or my show in 2004, that I&#8217;d see CD8 looking at sustained GOP victories of any kind, much less two-digit ones, in my lifetime, I&#8217;d have said you should get that traumatic brain injury looked at.<\/p>\n<p>And yet here we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joe Radinovich Campaign, stunned by polling that showed them slipping from a one point lead to being 15 point dogs, hit another bump on the campaign trail yesterday; J-Rad&#8217;s campaign manager has bailed: Meredith Raimondi has confirmed with Alpha News that she is no longer with Radinovich\u2019s campaign. Raimondi would not give any further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,320],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-68270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-18","category-mndfl","tag-mn-cd8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68270","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=68270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68271,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68270\/revisions\/68271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}