{"id":29326,"date":"2016-02-01T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29326"},"modified":"2016-01-24T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T15:58:12","slug":"qotd-the-usefulness-of-political-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/02\/01\/qotd-the-usefulness-of-political-polling\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The usefulness of political polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ten months before an election we have conjecture and nothing more. Pierre Trudeau was a political corpse 10 months before the 1980 election. Remember who won? The electorate has to be whipped, beaten and prodded to give a damn about politics even during the writ period. Had the pollster asked if Daffy Duck or Justin Trudeau should be the next Prime Minister, there&#8217;s a fair chance the media would be talking about whether a cartoon with a speech impediment can lead Canada. Oh wait. <\/p>\n<p>Richard Anderson, <a href=\"http:\/\/godscopybook.blogs.com\/gpb\/2014\/12\/i-dream-of-coalition-governments.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I Dream of Coalition Governments&#8221;, <em>The Gods of the Copybook Headings<\/em><\/a>, 2014-12-19.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten months before an election we have conjecture and nothing more. Pierre Trudeau was a political corpse 10 months before the 1980 election. Remember who won? The electorate has to be whipped, beaten and prodded to give a damn about politics even during the writ period. Had the pollster asked if Daffy Duck or Justin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,53,41],"tags":[188,887,511,289],"class_list":["post-29326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-electionwatch","tag-justintrudeau","tag-pierretrudeau","tag-polls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7D0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29327,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29326\/revisions\/29327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}