{"id":75661,"date":"2020-10-22T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75661"},"modified":"2020-10-22T05:39:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T10:39:37","slug":"expect-30-minutes-of-tina-smith-ads-per-hour-for-the-next-12-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75661","title":{"rendered":"Expect 30 Minutes Of Tina Smith Ads Per Hour For The Next 12 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Usual disclaimers about &#8220;the only poll that counts is on November 3 [1] inserted here.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But pessimist that I am, I really didn&#8217;t see this coming <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">KSTP\/SURVEYUSA: Tina Smith 43%; Jason Lewis 42%; 12% undecided; 3% people other. Confidence Interval +\/- 5%. Smith had 11-point lead in September and 7-point lead earlier this month. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mX91q0MI6X\">pic.twitter.com\/mX91q0MI6X<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tom Hauser (@thauserkstp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thauserkstp\/status\/1319051304900198400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Fluke?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polls finding more-likely voters, ones who&#8217;ve actually been paying attention?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard more than a few fellow D-list pundits exclaim disbelief at &#8220;12% undecided&#8221;.   I&#8217;m going to chalk that up to some misdirected Pauline Kael syndrome, from people who &#8220;write&#8221;\/tweet about politics constantly, thinking everyone is the same as they are.   Smith has tried hard to follow A-Klo&#8217;s model of being innocuous and invisible.   We&#8217;ll see if it works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lewis beating the Butcher Of Vandalia would be an early Christmas present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] And, let&#8217;s be honest, as we saw in 2008 and 2010, it still may not count, really, but let&#8217;s try not to go completely down the rabbit hole. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usual disclaimers about &#8220;the only poll that counts is on November 3 [1] inserted here. But pessimist that I am, I really didn&#8217;t see this coming KSTP\/SURVEYUSA: Tina Smith 43%; Jason Lewis 42%; 12% undecided; 3% people other. Confidence Interval +\/- 5%. Smith had 11-point lead in September and 7-point lead earlier this month. pic.twitter.com\/mX91q0MI6X [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,155,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-mn-congressional","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75661","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=75661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75664,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75661\/revisions\/75664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}