Jim Geraghty writes in NRO about how the blue Tsunami might in fact be a leaky diaper.<\/p>\n
The whole piece is worth a read – but this bit in particular caught my attention, vis-a-vis\u00a0<\/em>polling and dire-sounding media coverage:<\/p>\n Folks on the right get used to hearing that they\u2019re going to lose, how the Democrats have all the advantages, and they develop the ability to just keep plugging away in a tough environment. GOP grassroots activists are used to bad news, critical coverage, and ominous poll results. They\u2019ve seen their candidates give amazing debate performances and then watch the coverage declare the Democrat the big winner. They\u2019re used to having their attack ads denounced as vicious and unfair while the Democratic candidate\u2019s ads are merely \u201chard-hitting\u201d or \u201ctough.\u201d They\u2019re used to seeing unflattering photos of candidates on the front page, comments taken out of context, fact-checkers that get the facts wrong, headlines that leave the wrong impression, and glowing editorial-page endorsements of the opposition. They\u2019re used to having their yard signs stolen.<\/p>\n And they get up every morning and knock on doors and make the calls and participate in get-out-the-vote efforts anyway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course, this rings true for Minnesota Republicans; if you didn’t get used to ignoring Dave Schultz and mocking the Minnesota Poll, you’d never get out of bed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jim Geraghty writes in NRO about how the blue Tsunami might in fact be a leaky diaper. The whole piece is worth a read – but this bit in particular caught my attention, vis-a-vis\u00a0polling and dire-sounding media coverage: Folks on the right get used to hearing that they\u2019re going to lose, how the Democrats have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-18","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68351","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=68351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68352,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68351\/revisions\/68352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}