{"id":25087,"date":"2016-11-16T14:58:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T19:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25087"},"modified":"2016-11-16T15:02:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T20:02:01","slug":"patting-myself-on-the-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25087","title":{"rendered":"Patting Myself On The Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drum: Final Polls Show Clinton With Strong Lead<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/disqus.com\/home\/discussion\/motherjones\/final_polls_show_clinton_with_strong_lead\/#comment-2989442683\">cleek 9 days ago<\/a><br \/>\nsince we still don't elect President by national vote: no, i don't feel better. and President Gore wishes people would quit pretending national polls matter one bit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Drum: Weekly Pol Update Slight Tightening But Clinton Still Comfortably Ahead<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/disqus.com\/home\/discussion\/motherjones\/weekly_poll_update_slight_tightening_but_clinton_still_comfortably_ahead\/#comment-2984830577\">cleek \u2022 12 days ago<\/a><br \/>\nthis just in : President Gore wants everyone to remember that President is still not elected via national popular vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On unskewing 538:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/disqus.com\/home\/discussion\/motherjones\/elitist_lamestream_media_blows_it_again\/#comment-2981012434\">cleek ... 14 days ago<\/a><br \/>\nan X point lead in a national poll is meaningless since we don't elect President with a national vote.<\/p>\n<p>all that matters are the individual state polls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the meaning of a single national poll:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/disqus.com\/home\/discussion\/motherjones\/press_corps_goes_crazy_for_russia_today\/#comment-2979273581\">cleek ... 15 days ago<\/a><br \/>\npresidents are not elected by national vote. the only polls that matter are polls of individual states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Drum: Poll Tightening? Meh<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/disqus.com\/home\/discussion\/motherjones\/poll_tightening_meh\/#comment-2977927669\">cleek 16 days ago<\/a><br \/>\nthere is still no national vote for President.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On how much national polls matter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/disqus.com\/home\/discussion\/motherjones\/in_the_presidential_race_nothing_much_has_changed_in_the_past_year\/#comment-2889583717\">cleek 2 months ago<\/a><br \/>\npolls don't actually matter at all.<\/p>\n<p>all that matters are the results of the 50 state races.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drum: Final Polls Show Clinton With Strong Lead cleek 9 days ago since we still don't elect President by national vote: no, i don't feel better. and President Gore wishes people would quit pretending national polls matter one bit. Drum: Weekly Pol Update Slight Tightening But Clinton Still Comfortably Ahead cleek \u2022 12 days ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25089,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087\/revisions\/25089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}