{"id":60695,"date":"2016-10-25T11:30:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T16:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60695"},"modified":"2016-10-24T21:50:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T02:50:55","slug":"shot-in-the-dark-todays-corruption-news-six-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60695","title":{"rendered":"Shot In The Dark: Today’s Corruption News, Six Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the aftermath of the 2010 election, I noted that the Star\/Tribune “Minnesota”<\/a> and Humphrey Institute polls<\/a> were consistently, statistically, not only erroneous, but in a very suspiciously consistent way; in their polling, especially their election-eve polls, they always showed Republicans doing much much worse than they ended up doing – and this correlation was even stronger in races that ended up being close<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also pointed out actual research indicating that a “bandwagon effect” had been identified in political polling<\/a>; that negative polling about one’s candidate tended to make that candidate’s supporters stay home from the polls.<\/p>\n

At the time, I noted that it was\u00a0possible\u00a0<\/em>the media – operating in their capacity as Democrat operatives with bylines – might not be doing it on purpose to drive down Republican turnout in close elections – but if they\u00a0were<\/em>, it’s hard to think of what they’d be doing differently.<\/p>\n

I needn’t have hedged; when I suspect the media of some pro-Democrat perfidy, I’m rarely disappointed.<\/p>\n

John Podesta’s emails, hacked by Wikileaks, show that the Democrats, working through their network of sympathetic pundits, journalists and pollsters, have been doing exactly what I suspected they were<\/a>; \u00a0getting pollsters to jiggle\u00a0the samping to underpoll Republicans and overpoll Democrats<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Suspicion of Democrat perfidy is all but certainly proof, and is almost always correct”. \u00a0It might be a Berg’s Law soon.<\/p>\n

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In the aftermath of the 2010 election, I noted that the Star\/Tribune “Minnesota” and Humphrey Institute polls were consistently, statistically, not only erroneous, but in a very suspiciously consistent way; in their polling, especially their election-eve polls, they always showed Republicans doing much much worse than they ended up doing – and this correlation was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-the-great-poll-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60695","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=60695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60699,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60695\/revisions\/60699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}