{"id":14687,"date":"2015-08-10T06:37:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14687"},"modified":"2015-08-10T07:55:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T12:55:47","slug":"politician-cackles-rubs-hands-together-explains-how-she-duped-and-manipulated-her-constituents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/10\/politician-cackles-rubs-hands-together-explains-how-she-duped-and-manipulated-her-constituents\/","title":{"rendered":"Politician Cackles, Rubs Hands Together, Explains How She Duped And Manipulated Her Constituents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, Claire McCaskill has a book coming out<\/a>. In it, she gleefully explains how she duped voters in 2012:<\/p>\n

It was early July in 2012 when Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and her top campaign strategists launched \u201cOperation Dog Whistle,\u201d a secret scheme designed to help arch-conservative Todd Akin win that year\u2019s GOP Senate primary.<\/p>\n

McCaskill knew that Akin, then a St. Louis County congressman, would be her weakest opponent in the general election, someone easily portrayed as extreme and prone to controversial statements.<\/p>\n

The centerpiece of McCaskill\u2019s unconventional strategy? A TV ad blitz that appeared to attack Akin as a fringe candidate but also promoted him as a \u201ctrue conservative.\u201d She wanted the message \u201cpitched in such a way that it would only be heard by a certain group of people\u201d \u2014 conservative voters most likely to turn out for the GOP primary, hence the dog whistle reference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Swell. I said as much at the time (probably because I read someone smarter than me on the Internet).<\/p>\n

I suppose people who actually buy copies of this book will lurve how the savvy Senator tricks the Republican primary voters into doing her will. I wonder how often those who applaud the politicos’ and leaders’ gulling the unwary fail to think that the same people might be gulling them. Probably not a lot, because they think they’re on the same team as the elected officials, and they’re often not. The elected officials are on their own team.<\/p>\n

I, on the other hand, find it a bit frightening how easily a Senator will reveal her tricks in deceiving some of the people she represents–although not her voters<\/em>–and how pleased her voters will be with her advisors’ ploys.<\/p>\n

It demonstrates an overt lack of respect for fellow citizens that might eventually lead to a bad, bad end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently, Claire McCaskill has a book coming out. In it, she gleefully explains how she duped voters in 2012: It was early July in 2012 when Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and her top campaign strategists launched \u201cOperation Dog Whistle,\u201d a secret scheme designed to help arch-conservative Todd Akin win that year\u2019s GOP Senate primary. McCaskill […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14690,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14687\/revisions\/14690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}