{"id":28322,"date":"2016-05-22T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T20:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28322"},"modified":"2016-05-22T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T20:26:11","slug":"prepare-for-the-pre-election-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28322","title":{"rendered":"Prepare For The Pre-Election Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/begrudging-wapo-poll-trump-46-clinton-44\/article\/2591982\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Examiner<\/a> today is reporting on a new <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Washington Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Washington Post<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Opinion poll\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opinion_poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">poll<\/a> taken on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States presidential election\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_presidential_election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Presidential race<\/a>. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Donald Trump\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trumponline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Donald Trump<\/a> leads Hillary Clinton by two <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Percentage\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Percentage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">percentage<\/a> points (within the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Margin of error\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margin_of_error\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">margin of error<\/a>) in the poll,\u00a0 but don&#8217;t look for that number early in the story.<\/p>\n<p>The article at The Washington Examiner reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>It&#8217;s not the headline, and it takes 219 words to get there, but a new Washington Post poll on the presidential race reveals that Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/poll-election-2016-shapes-up-as-a-contest-of-negatives\/2016\/05\/21\/8d4ccfd6-1ed3-11e6-b6e0-c53b7ef63b45_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-banner-main_poll0522-1201am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton<\/a> among registered <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Voting\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">voters<\/a> 46 percent to 44 percent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Inside the Post&#8217;s story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/how-the-new-washington-post-poll-numbers-break-down\/article\/2591993\" target=\"_blank\">the poll<\/a> is this paragraph:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;At this point, the two candidates are in a statistical dead heat among registered voters, with Trump favored by 46 percent and Clinton favored by 44 percent. That represents an 11-point shift toward the presumptive Republican nominee since March. Among all adults, Clinton holds a six-point lead (48 percent to 42 percent), down from 18 points in March.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is going to be an interesting election. Leading in a poll of people who don&#8217;t vote really isn&#8217;t worth much. The challenge for the Democrats will be getting voters to register and vote. Many Republicans are angry enough at Washington to come out and vote for anyone. Democrats can&#8217;t really blame the Republicans for the mess we are in now&#8211;<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Obama<\/a> has been President for eight years and Hillary Clinton looks like more of the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Examiner today is reporting on a new Washington Post poll taken on the Presidential race. Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by two percentage points (within the margin of error) in the poll,\u00a0 but don&#8217;t look for that number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28322\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[712,3357,1457,3415,2720],"class_list":["post-28322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-republican-party-united-states","tag-the-washington-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28323,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28322\/revisions\/28323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}