{"id":567,"date":"2010-01-19T21:08:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2010-01-19T21:08:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:08:32","slug":"open-thread-on-scott-brown-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/19\/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<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsecularright.org%2Fwordpress%2Fdata%2Fopen-thread-on-scott-brown-etc&amp;linkname=Open%20thread%20on%20Scott%20Brown%2C%20etc.\">Share\/Save<\/a><\/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 average of 51 for Brown and 44 for Coakley. The final looks like to be [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}