Monday, September 15, 2014

Mostly open thread

The muse is intermittent these days so this will be a mostly open thread. Having said that, a few very brief observations:

  • I think the best way to read the latest Star Tribune polling on the governor's race is this -- people are open to the idea of getting rid of Mark Dayton, hence the very close approval/disapproval rating. People don't know who Jeff Johnson is yet. They'll find out next month. If Dayton looks shaky during the debates, and my guess is that he will, at least once, it could be game on, especially since I expect Johnson to perform very well.
  • The NFL may have all manner of public relations problems off the field, but the football continues to be intriguing. Show of hands -- how many people saw San Diego winning yesterday? And how about Gino's beloved Bears, coming back from way down to ruin San Francisco's party? And oh, by the way, the preferred green-clad squad won at Lambeau yesterday.
  • If the Scots vote for independence, there are going to be a lot of people in other parts of the world who will try to do the same. Spain in particular could become fragmented in a hurry.

4 comments:

First Ringer said...

I think the best way to read the Star Tribune's polling is with galls of laughter.

Several polls appeared in the last couple of weeks showing Dayton with a 7-9% lead. Then suddenly, the Star Tribune shows Dayton with a 12% lead. I would have ask Gov. Skip Humphrey to comment on the accuracy of the Strib's polling, but he was unavailable for comment.

Mr. D said...

Several polls appeared in the last couple of weeks showing Dayton with a 7-9% lead. Then suddenly, the Star Tribune shows Dayton with a 12% lead. I would have ask Gov. Skip Humphrey to comment on the accuracy of the Strib's polling, but he was unavailable for comment.

Yeah. I do think the approval/disapproval number is the interesting one -- people understand that a lot of the good news we've heard is balloon juice.

The other thing is that there's obviously not a lot of dirt on Jeff Johnson; if there were, we'd have heard about it already. ABM doesn't have a lot of material to work with this time.

Gino said...

i think this comeback is the best in recent Bears history. it was a tough, slow plodding, requiring all phases with an injured receiving corps and an injured QB that would have come out of the game if his name was any other.

W.B. Picklesworth said...

I missed the Bears comeback. I chose bedtime. Now I am filled with regret. Alas.

As for the Scots, I really hope they go through with it. In democratic societies I'm all for smaller units. It makes your foolish decisions a little more immediate. And I can't wait for the Scots to start reaping what they've been sowing.