{"id":1235,"date":"2009-11-02T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/02\/ncprs-poll-coverage\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T14:47:00","slug":"ncprs-poll-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/02\/ncprs-poll-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"NCPR&#8217;s poll coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NCPR has probed and dissected as many polls as we could find these past weeks.  Now we&#8217;re going to stop reporting on them until after tomorrow&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>Why?  First, because the experts we talk to agree that the situation out there is just too crazy for accurate surveys. <\/p>\n<p>This is reflected by the fact that new polls coming out today are all over the map.<\/p>\n<p>Part of this reflects the continued fall-out from Republican Dede Scozzafava&#8217;s withdrawal and her unexpected endorsement of Democrat Bill Owens. <\/p>\n<p>Partly, it reflects the dramatic, non-traditional campaign of Doug Hoffman.<\/p>\n<p>And partly it reflects the fact that no one&#8217;s really sure who will turn up tomorrow.  &#8220;Likely Voter Models&#8221; are notoriously sketchy&#8230;especially in special elections.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say that if you ever dreamed of voting in a dramatic, fascinating, nationally resonant contest, where your ballot could make a big difference, this is that opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of thousands of votes could very easily make the difference either way.  It&#8217;s a cliche &#8212; but also a fact &#8212; to say that election day is the only poll that matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCPR has probed and dissected as many polls as we could find these past weeks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[874],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}