

{"id":15521,"date":"2016-06-14T18:48:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T22:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15521"},"modified":"2016-06-14T18:50:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T22:50:12","slug":"how-polls-are-manipulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15521","title":{"rendered":"How polls are manipulated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian alluded to this a while back and I didn&#8217;t push him on details<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg, the news provider with zero credibility on politics just released a poll showing Hillary with a huge lead over Trump<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.bwbx.io\/documents\/users\/iqjWHBFdfxIU\/rc0NltTBR0ug\/v0\">Poll details<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assuming the questions were asked in this sequence, they start by asking how President Obama is doing and which issues are the most important to you from a list they suggest &#8211; and then ask which candidate you will vote for.  This is your classic &#8220;push poll&#8221; where you are soliciting the desired result you want.  The sample has been weighted by race and age.  1,000 people is a too small sample for a reliable national survey.  Each respondent is equivalent to 200,000 voters.  That&#8217;s a 3.6% margin of error, even if performed correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Note they did not ask &#8220;are you registered to vote?&#8221;.  That means illegal aliens, permanent resident aliens and convicted felons were included.<\/p>\n<p>72% of voting age people said they are definitely going to vote.  Turnout in 2012 was 70% among registered voters, a bit over half of the voting age population.  If you ask people if they look at porn in the Internet, they&#8217;ll say &#8220;no&#8221;, yet the largest bandwidth user are porn sites.  What people say they do and what they really do are often very different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian alluded to this a while back and I didn&#8217;t push him on details Bloomberg, the news provider with zero credibility on politics just released a poll showing Hillary with a huge lead over Trump Poll details Assuming the questions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15521\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15525,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions\/15525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}