{"id":2731,"date":"2010-08-02T21:01:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T21:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2010-08-02T21:01:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T21:01:52","slug":"trending_positi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2731","title":{"rendered":"Trending Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll shows that all three potential DFL candidates for governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/state\/99695934.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUec7PaP3E77K_0c::D3aDhUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr\">are leading the Republican candidate, Tom Emmer<\/a>. It&#8217;s still months before the election and anything can happen, but GOP activists can&#8217;t be happy with Emmer&#8217;s inability to gain traction against any of his Democratic candidates. Perhaps they&#8217;re having second thoughts about ceding the nomination process to Tea Party zealots who couldn&#8217;t be bothered to find a candidate that possessed even a thin veneer of moderation. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth noting that Pawlenty&#8217;s name has been frequently mentioned in DFL campaign ads; almost as much as Emmer&#8217;s name. It&#8217;s something of a repeat of the 2008 national election in that Dems are trying to portray Pawlenty as mini-Bush, the guy who let everything go to hell and is now leaving us in a big mess. Pawlenty was never that unpopular, but Minnesotans seem to have a diminished appetite for another Republican in the governor&#8217;s mansion. If the eventual Democratic candidate can avoid having any paranoid outbursts (cf. Mike Hatch in 2006), he or she might actually win this thing. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll shows that all three potential DFL candidates for governor are leading the Republican candidate, Tom Emmer. It&#8217;s still months before the election and anything can happen, but GOP activists can&#8217;t be happy with Emmer&#8217;s inability to gain traction against any of his Democratic candidates. Perhaps they&#8217;re having second thoughts about ceding the <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2731' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-I3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}