{"id":30777,"date":"2020-11-04T15:52:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=30777"},"modified":"2020-11-04T15:52:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:52:24","slug":"comments-on-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=30777","title":{"rendered":"Comments On Polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4337,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/michael.bane.395\\\/posts\\\/3425864044170956&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/login\\\/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmichael.bane.395%2Fposts%2F3425864044170956&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4338,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/t.co\\\/PBHBYDsCGB&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4339,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/CalebJHull\\\/status\\\/1323837545092943874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I came across a couple of comments on polls and polling this morning that make some sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michael.bane.395\/posts\/3425864044170956\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my friend Michael Bane<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Polls&#8221; are nothing more than psy-ops operations designed to demoralize voters ahead of an election; even an &#8220;average of polling data&#8221; is nothing more than an &#8220;average of lies,&#8221; which translates into a lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And then this Tweet from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) who was inundated by tons of out of state money for his opponent Jaime Harrison. In the end, all that money was wasted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lindsey Graham after winning:<br><br>&quot;To all of the pollsters out there, you have no idea what you are doing. And to all of the liberals in California and New York, you wasted a lot of money. This is the worst return on investment in the history of American politics.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PBHBYDsCGB\">pic.twitter.com\/PBHBYDsCGB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebJHull\/status\/1323837545092943874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a couple of comments on polls and polling this morning that make some sense. First from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[392,1224,1749],"class_list":["post-30777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-michael-bane","tag-polling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30779,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777\/revisions\/30779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}