{"id":399,"date":"2006-10-13T18:59:17","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T17:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=399"},"modified":"2006-10-13T19:05:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T18:05:03","slug":"polls-and-politicans-truth-is-who-you-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Polls and politicans, Truth is who you trust."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find this amazing, when political polls indicate a rise in popularity like when  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireland.com\/newspaper\/front\/2006\/1013\/1160606580458.html\">Fianna F\u00c3\u00a1il soars in poll as Opposition suffers decline<\/a>. Everyone in the captive press spew hours of dialog about how such results could have happened. But when polls are negative, they spend that same effort trying to demonstrate that the polls were flawed, or biased. <\/p>\n<p>The press <b>can not<\/b> get it into their heads that the positive poll, while reflecting an unexpected result could be flawed, or even false in it&#8217;s results. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find this amazing, when political polls indicate a rise in popularity like when Fianna F\u00c3\u00a1il soars in poll as Opposition suffers decline. Everyone in the captive press spew hours of dialog about how such results could have happened. But<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=399\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Polls and politicans, Truth is who you trust.<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,45,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","category-politics","category-statistics","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}