{"id":1156,"date":"2008-08-21T19:09:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T23:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2008-08-21T19:09:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T23:09:46","slug":"key-to-electoral-success-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/21\/key-to-electoral-success-a-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Key to Electoral Success: A Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It strikes me that I should have started a series with this post &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/14\/key-to-electoral-success-hide-being-smart-and-like-giving-black-eyes\/\">Key to Electoral Success: Hide Being Smart and Like Giving Black Eyes<\/a> &#8211; back in May.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s been a resurgence, this cycle, of tortured attempts by Democrats elevate the violent hillbilly model of social interaction into an acceptable political strategy.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourfuture.org\/blog-entry\/2008083205\/why-we-dont-shoot-back\">Here&#8217;s the latest entry<\/a> in that contest.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll give it credit for being slightly smarter than most.<\/p>\n<p><em>h\/t to Raising Kaine, where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingkaine.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=15460\">the irony of pushing this line<\/a> almost doubles over on itself<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It strikes me that I should have started a series with this post &#8211; Key to Electoral Success: Hide Being Smart and Like Giving Black Eyes &#8211; back in May.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s been a resurgence, this cycle, of tortured attempts by Democrats elevate the violent hillbilly model of social interaction into an acceptable political strategy.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It strikes me that I should have started a series with this post - Key to Electoral Success: Hide Being Smart and Like Giving Black Eyes - back in May.\u00c2 There&#039;s been a resurgence, this cycle, of tortured attempts by Democrats elevate the violent hillbilly model of social interaction into an acceptable political strategy.\u00c2 Here&#039;s\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MB\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"politics,society,virginia\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/21\/key-to-electoral-success-a-series\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.1\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blacknell.net | Politics, open government, and safe streets.  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