{"id":4748,"date":"2008-11-03T12:12:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T17:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2008-11-03T12:12:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T17:12:33","slug":"lessons-of-recent-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=4748","title":{"rendered":"Lessons of recent history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slublog at <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/277223.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ace of Spades<\/a> reminds us of what the polling looked like four years ago;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zogby&#8217;s call?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/1266944\/posts\">Kerry, 311; Bush, 213<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The electoral vote call made by one of those aggregating sites?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/evp2004\/nov\/nov01.html\">Electoral Vote (based on composite polls) &#8211; Kerry 298, Bush 231<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the exit polling? Remember that two years after the election, RFK, Jr. in of all places, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/news\/story\/10432334\/was_the_2004_election_stolen\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone Magazine<\/a>, told us the 2004 election was stolen because &#8220;the experts&#8221; said exit polling is more accurate than the actual vote?<\/p>\n<p>We get inundated with useless polling data even after election and, so all of this blather means nothing. Just go and vote. The last election, I drove straight to the airport and left the country to wait out the vote counting. This time I&#8217;m going to stick around to protect my stuff &#8211; and I may just drive to several polling places and screw up the exit polls. I can&#8217;t vote twice, but I can sure exit-poll twice&#8230;or twenty times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slublog at Ace of Spades reminds us of what the polling looked like four years ago; &hellip; <a title=\"Lessons of recent history\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=4748\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lessons of recent history<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}