{"id":31621,"date":"2017-09-24T19:58:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T23:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31621"},"modified":"2017-09-24T19:58:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T23:58:22","slug":"do-you-feel-unrepresented-when-you-read-poll-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31621","title":{"rendered":"Do You Feel Unrepresented When You Read Poll Results?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I hear someone in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mainstream media\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mainstream_media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">mainstream media<\/a> announce results of a poll, I always wonder why I always seem to be in the minority. On Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/fraud-mainstream-polls-use-29-more-democrats-than-republicans\/article\/2635271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Examiner<\/a> posted an article that explains why.<\/p>\n<p>The article includes the following <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Record chart\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Record_chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">chart<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PartisanPolls1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PartisanPolls1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PartisanPolls1.png 701w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PartisanPolls1-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PartisanPolls1-500x168.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a>Contrast that chart with the following chart:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PartisanPolls2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PartisanPolls2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PartisanPolls2.png 687w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PartisanPolls2-300x69.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PartisanPolls2-500x115.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a>The beauty of statistics is that you can make them say anything you want them to.<\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link above to read the entire article. It is very insightful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I hear someone in the mainstream media announce results of a poll, I always wonder why I always seem to be in the minority. On Friday, The Washington Examiner posted an article that explains why. The article includes the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31621\">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":[10403,11117],"class_list":["post-31621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-political-polling","tag-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31621","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=31621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31624,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31621\/revisions\/31624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}