{"id":874,"date":"2002-08-11T18:39:29","date_gmt":"2002-08-12T01:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/08\/simons-toastiness-quotient\/"},"modified":"2002-08-11T18:39:29","modified_gmt":"2002-08-12T01:39:29","slug":"simons-toastiness-quotient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/11\/simons-toastiness-quotient\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon’s toastiness quotient"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tMy buddy John Weidner says I’m freaking him out<\/a> with my gloom and doom over the sputtering Simon campaign, and he cites a NewsMax story to the effect that a hidden USA Today poll shows Simon leading Davis by one percentage point. There’s only one problem with this poll: it was conducted before the verdict in the fraud case. <\/p>\n

And far from being suppressed, it was reported in the NY Times (California G.O.P. Leaders Pessimistic on Top Race)<\/a> when it was news:<\/p>\n

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In the last Field Poll, he trailed Mr. Davis by just seven points, half as many as he did in April. A poll conducted by Survey USA a few days before the verdict showed a statistical tie, with Mr. Simon at 46 percent and Mr. Davis at 45.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most of the certainty about Simon’s current status comes from internal polling Simon did riight after the jury verdict, which reportedly showed a 20% drop. NewsMax is careful not to mention this polling, sticking to “published” poll results only, which makes them just as dishonest as the liberal media.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the time has come to talk about bias in the “partisan” media so we get it all.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My buddy John Weidner says I’m freaking him out with my gloom and doom over the sputtering Simon campaign, and he cites a NewsMax story to the effect that a hidden USA Today poll shows Simon leading Davis by one percentage point. There’s only one problem with this poll: it was conducted before the verdict … Continue reading “Simon’s toastiness quotient”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-e6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}