{"id":196,"date":"2008-10-31T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/31\/sorry-no-stinkin-polls-for-you\/"},"modified":"2008-10-31T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T15:58:00","slug":"sorry-no-stinkin-polls-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/31\/sorry-no-stinkin-polls-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, no stinkin&#8217; polls for you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been receiving emails sporadically from Gillibrand-Treadwell watchers asking why I haven&#8217;t been using poll numbers to gauge the race.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is that there are no stinkin&#8217; polls, as Radiobob might put it.<\/p>\n<p>Siena tracked this race in 2006, when Gillibrand was a VERY longshot.  But this year, when the race is arguably very competitive, they opted out. <\/p>\n<p>Both campaigns say on background that they&#8217;ve done internal polling.  And I&#8217;ve heard the results of those polls described but only at third hand. <\/p>\n<p>Even in a blog I won&#8217;t quote information that&#8217;s uncorroborated and third hand.  Standards, standards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All the national pundits I can find, including the Washington Post, Stuart Rothenberg, Larry Sabato, and Congressional Quarterly agree that this race leans Democratic.<\/p>\n<p>But Sandy Treadwell is spending millions of dollars on TV ads in a district that George Bush carried handily four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll be watching this one very closely on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been receiving emails sporadically from Gillibrand-Treadwell watchers asking why I haven&#8217;t been using poll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}