{"id":278,"date":"2016-10-26T18:56:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2016-10-26T18:56:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:56:20","slug":"political-polling-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Political Polling Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">I am so tired of the media&#8217;s fixation with the polling numbers. Especially when the only polls that seem to matter to them are the ones that show Clinton leading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">And I don\u2019t know why we have to break the polling numbers down at all\u2026 they separate the numbers by race, by age, by sex, by which generation you belong to, likely voters, registered voters and on and on. The only point that I can see in making all these sub comparisons is so the media can cherry pick what to report so they maximize the benefit to Hillary\u2019s campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have to remember that the only poll that counts is the one taken by the voters on November 8<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, so get out and Vote! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so tired of the media&#8217;s fixation with the polling numbers. Especially when the only polls that seem to matter to them are the ones that show Clinton leading. And I don\u2019t know why we have to break the polling numbers down at all\u2026 they separate the numbers by race, by age, by sex, by which generation you belong to, likely voters, registered voters and on and on. The only point that I can see in making all these sub comparisons is so the media can cherry pick what to report so they maximize the benefit to Hillary\u2019s campaign. We have to remember that the only poll that counts is the one taken by the voters on November 8th,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-is","category-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}