{"id":30646,"date":"2012-09-24T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30646"},"modified":"2013-09-13T07:51:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T12:51:44","slug":"the-great-poll-scam-a-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30646","title":{"rendered":"The Great Poll Scam: A Blast From The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we look at the abusive travesty that is the Minnesota Poll &#8211; in this case, the ludicrously skewed, 3:2 pro-DFL partisan breakdown in this weekend&#8217;s polling on the two Constitutional Amendments &#8211; let&#8217;s take a trip back through history.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Newport, the president of the broadly-respected Gallup Polls, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?s=%22Great+Poll+Scam%22+%2B+%22Frank+Newport%22&amp;submit=Search\">savaged the Minnesota Poll in the immediate aftermath of the 2010 midterm and gubernatorial elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s make sure we&#8217;re clear on this. \u00a0Pollsters attacking pollsters in public is a little like magicians publicly heckling other magicians.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any evidence the\u00a0<em>Strib\u00a0<\/em>has polished up their methodology?<\/p>\n<p>No. \u00a0Indeed, the two polls released over the weekend on the Marriage and Voter ID amendments show quite the opposite &#8211; or that some copy editor took a poll of Ramsey County voters and mislabeled it a poll of Minnesotans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we look at the abusive travesty that is the Minnesota Poll &#8211; in this case, the ludicrously skewed, 3:2 pro-DFL partisan breakdown in this weekend&#8217;s polling on the two Constitutional Amendments &#8211; let&#8217;s take a trip back through history. Frank Newport, the president of the broadly-respected Gallup Polls, savaged the Minnesota Poll in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,4,130,125],"tags":[262,219],"class_list":["post-30646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-the-great-poll-scam","tag-minnesota-poll","tag-low-information-voters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30646","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=30646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30648,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30646\/revisions\/30648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}