{"id":27948,"date":"2012-05-14T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27948"},"modified":"2012-05-14T13:11:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T18:11:14","slug":"i-dont-pay-much-attention-to-polls-six-months-before-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27948","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Pay Much Attention To Polls Six Months Before The Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, the only poll that matters is five and a half months away. \u00a0We all know that.<\/p>\n<p>But a guy can dream; <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/gallup-state-numbers-predict-huge-obama-loss\/352881\"><em>what if <\/em>the Gallup Poll<\/a> isn&#8217;t wrong?:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/blog_listing_full\/public\/Screen%20shot%202012-02-01%20at%209.41.29%20AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, it means conservatives are going to have to not screw up, and keep a hypothetical Romney Administration honest and, ahem, non-RINO-y.<\/p>\n<p>Which means flipping the House and Senate.<\/p>\n<p>More on that tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, the only poll that matters is five and a half months away. \u00a0We all know that. But a guy can dream; what if the Gallup Poll isn&#8217;t wrong?: Well, it means conservatives are going to have to not screw up, and keep a hypothetical Romney Administration honest and, ahem, non-RINO-y. Which means flipping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27950,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948\/revisions\/27950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}