{"id":50117,"date":"2022-11-21T11:18:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=50117"},"modified":"2022-11-21T11:18:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:18:54","slug":"tidbits-in-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2022\/11\/21\/tidbits-in-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"tidbits in polls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/more-quarter-country-wants-gop-172544116.html\">Polling always presents these odd statistical goofballs<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>While 28 percent of the country overall said a GOP House investigation into whether Biden should be impeached was a &#8220;top priority,&#8221; that number nearly doubled to 55 percent among GOP respondents. Just 6 percent of Democrats agreed. Notably, GOP support for investigating Hunter Biden&#8217;s finances \u2014 a\u00a0major source of conservative ire and conspiratorial theorizing\u00a0\u2014 is slightly\u00a0lower\u00a0than their interest in an impeachment investigation, with 52 percent of GOP respondents calling it a priority for the incoming Congress. Meanwhile, 7 percent of Democrats agreed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(1) The country never really got to the bottom of Billy Carter either.  (The Carter Family Crime Ring?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(2). Now, the shifting and sorting in political make-up creates interesting results.  Back in 2000 and 2004, you had Nader crowing that Democrats should be blaming Gore for all those Democrats in Florida who voted Bush &#8212; zoom in and you see that out in North Florida it is a plethora of registered Democrats who have long since started voting Republican.  This effect continues with conspiracy theories in Ohio in 2004 and yammering of &#8220;Who are these Democrats?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comedy ensues with Obama&#8217;s 2012 primaries.  West Virginia takes center stage.  The funny thing is that continued with the question of Bernie&#8217;s vote against Hillary in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if I can answer that &#8220;who are these Democrats?&#8221; in those cases &#8212; left overs from a previous era &#8212; I actually don&#8217;t know in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seven percent.  Who are these Democrats?  Are they coming in from the Left?  Maybe a permanent &#8220;throw the bums out&#8221; attitude pervades?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polling always presents these odd statistical goofballs: While 28 percent of the country overall said a GOP House investigation into whether Biden should be impeached was a &#8220;top priority,&#8221; that number nearly doubled to 55 percent among GOP respondents. Just 6 percent of Democrats agreed. Notably, GOP support for investigating Hunter Biden&#8217;s finances \u2014 a\u00a0major [&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-50117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50117","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=50117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50118,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50117\/revisions\/50118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}