{"id":83840,"date":"2022-11-09T09:05:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T15:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83840"},"modified":"2022-11-09T09:10:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T15:10:05","slug":"the-biggest-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83840","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The biggest losers last night:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Trafalgar Polling.  Their &#8220;secret sauce&#8221; seems to have hit its shelf date with velocity.   Utterly useless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Minnesota taxpayers &#8211; as in, the ones that actually pay taxes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the #1 loser last night:  Donald Trump&#8217;s endorsement and coattails.   From Keri Lake to Don Bolduc to Scott Jensen, they fared terribly.  There were exceptions &#8211; but JD Vance likely needed the &#8220;R&#8221; rather than the &#8220;T&#8221; behind his name in Ohio.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So congrats, Democrats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have a senile president, a thin lead in the Senate, a looming recession, inflation that your policies stand every chance of turning into hyperinflation, and an election built largely on dissatisfied young people who your policies aren&#8217;t going to help beyond a few transient payoffs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck with that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest losers last night: 3. Trafalgar Polling. Their &#8220;secret sauce&#8221; seems to have hit its shelf date with velocity. Utterly useless. 2. Minnesota taxpayers &#8211; as in, the ones that actually pay taxes. And the #1 loser last night: Donald Trump&#8217;s endorsement and coattails. From Keri Lake to Don Bolduc to Scott Jensen, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83840","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=83840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83843,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83840\/revisions\/83843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}