{"id":68465,"date":"2018-11-05T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68465"},"modified":"2019-05-21T06:55:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T11:55:06","slug":"silent-but-dea-er-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68465","title":{"rendered":"Silent But Dea&#8230;Er, Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is another stealth &#8220;red wave&#8221; about to break?<\/p>\n<p>Well, being a fundamental pessimist, I&#8217;d say &#8220;probably not&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0 but I&#8217;ve been wrong before, most noticeably two years about tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>But according to Rasmusson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/october_2018\/is_another_silent_red_wave_coming\">there might just be something sneaking out of the fog.:<\/a>\u00a0I&#8217;m adding emphasis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 60% of Likely Democratic Voters say they are more likely to let others know how they intend to vote this year compared to previous congressional elections. This compares to 49% of Republicans and 40% of voters not affiliated with either major political party. (To see survey question wording,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/questions\/pt_survey_questions\/october_2018\/questions_telling_your_vote_october_31_november_1_2018\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"imkadwrap2\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections\/election_2016\/is_there_silent_trump_support_that_pollsters_are_missing\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In August 2016<\/a>,\u00a052% of Democrats were more likely to let others know how they intended to vote in the upcoming presidential election, compared to 46% of Republicans and 34% of unaffiliated voters. <strong>Some analysts before and after Donald Trump&#8217;s upset victory suggested that most pollsters missed his hidden support among voters fearful of criticism who were unwilling to say where they stood<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t tell you the number of people who voted for Truimp who&#8217;d have\u00a0<em>never\u00a0<\/em>admitted it in public, fearing ostracism and reprisals.<\/p>\n<p>Happening again?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll know tomorrow.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"imkadwrap3\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is another stealth &#8220;red wave&#8221; about to break? Well, being a fundamental pessimist, I&#8217;d say &#8220;probably not&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0 but I&#8217;ve been wrong before, most noticeably two years about tomorrow. But according to Rasmusson, there might just be something sneaking out of the fog.:\u00a0I&#8217;m adding emphasis: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366],"tags":[409],"class_list":["post-68465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-18","tag-unexpected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71349,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68465\/revisions\/71349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}