{"id":3508,"date":"2016-11-09T10:33:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T09:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2016-11-09T10:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T09:38:06","slug":"those-pollsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3508\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Pollsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They fucked up pretty badly, didn&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NYT-Prediction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NYT-Prediction-1024x564.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NYT-Prediction-1024x564.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NYT-Prediction-300x165.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NYT-Prediction-768x423.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NYT-Prediction-500x275.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NYT-Prediction.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/elections\/forecast\/president\" target=\"_blank\">NYT<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>My guess would be the kind of people who work in polling organisations are cut from the same cloth as the media, academic, and other establishment figures they are supposed to be getting opinions about. \u00a0As such they probably don&#8217;t even know where to start looking for contradicting opinions, unaware they even exist. \u00a0You can imagine it, can&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Well, I&#8217;ve done the tour of Columbia University, Google, Tesla, and Goldman Sachs and I couldn&#8217;t find anyone who is going to vote for Trump. \u00a0Hillary&#8217;s a shoo-in.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These organisations need a better understanding of their country, who lives in it, and where. \u00a0As Trump bothered to do, in fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They fucked up pretty badly, didn&#8217;t they? (Source: NYT) My guess would be the kind of people who work in polling organisations are cut from the same cloth as the media, academic, and other establishment figures they are supposed to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3508\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,20,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}