{"id":3667,"date":"2010-01-19T21:08:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2010-01-19T21:09:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:09:55","slug":"open-thread-on-scott-brown-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/open-thread-on-scott-brown-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Open thread on Scott Brown, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case people want to discuss his victory tonight. I don&#8217;t have any unique insights that you can&#8217;t find elsewhere, but a quick question. Looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/pollster.com\/\">pollster.com<\/a> Coakley vs. Brown polls on the front page right now I get average of 51 for Brown and 44 for Coakley. The final looks like to be a 3 percentage points higher for Coakley and 1 point higher for Brown, so I think it worked out. Last fall I made fun of a rather <a href=\"http:\/\/wizbangblog.com\/content\/2008\/10\/21\/gallup-and-new-coke.php\">stupid blogger at Wizbang<\/a> for his skepticism of the polling (which turned out to be very close in regards to Obama vs. McCain). I haven&#8217;t followed political blogging too closely recently, so does anyone know of an equivalent from the Left this time around? They&#8217;re usually pretty amusing to read after the fact, though I grant that this race moved fast and the polling was volatile in comparison to last fall&#8217;s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case people want to discuss his victory tonight. I don&#8217;t have any unique insights that you can&#8217;t find elsewhere, but a quick question. Looking at the pollster.com Coakley vs. Brown polls on the front page right now I get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/open-thread-on-scott-brown-etc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}