{"id":11014,"date":"2013-01-09T10:49:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T17:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=11014"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T17:49:03","slug":"in-the-anals-of-fun-but-meaningless-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/01\/09\/in-the-anals-of-fun-but-meaningless-polling\/","title":{"rendered":"in the anals of fun but meaningless polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicpolicypolling.com\/pdf\/2011\/PPP_Release_Natl_010813_.pdf\">This is all very much fun, but it&#8217;s also all very much meaningless<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>When asked if they have a higher opinion of either Congress or a series of unpleasant or disliked things, voters said they had a higher opinion of root canals (32 for Congress and 56 for the dental procedure), NFL replacement refs (29-56), head lice (19-67), the rock \u00c2\u00a0band Nickelback (32-39), colonoscopies (31-58), Washington DC political pundits (34-37), carnies (31-39), traffic jams (34-56), cockroaches (43-45), Donald Trump (42-44), \u00c2\u00a0France (37-46), Genghis Khan (37-41), used-car salesmen (32-57), and Brussels sprouts \u00c2\u00a0(23-69) than Congress. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Congress did manage to beat out telemarketers (45-35), John Edwards (45-29), the \u00c2\u00a0Kardashians (49-36), lobbyists (48-30), North Korea (61-26), the ebola virus (53-25), \u00c2\u00a0Lindsay Lohan (45-41), Fidel Castro (54-32), playground bullies (43-38), meth labs (60-\u00c2\u00a021), communism (57-23), and gonorrhea (53-28)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When push comes to shove, those numbers would shift a tad. \u00c2\u00a0Really the query is not even asking for satisfaction \/ dis-satisfaction. \u00c2\u00a0It becomes one of which item amuses the called upon polled person to complement. \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Hm. \u00c2\u00a0Communism. \u00c2\u00a0Yeah, I&#8217;ll go with that one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This exercise by the Public Policy Polling is&#8230; too cute by half, and falls into the &#8220;Water Skiing Squirrel&#8221; news highlights category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is all very much fun, but it&#8217;s also all very much meaningless. When asked if they have a higher opinion of either Congress or a series of unpleasant or disliked things, voters said they had a higher opinion of root canals (32 for Congress and 56 for the dental procedure), NFL replacement refs (29-56), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11015,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014\/revisions\/11015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}