{"id":186,"date":"2004-10-19T10:35:44","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T10:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=186"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:40:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:40:37","slug":"interesting-poll-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Poll Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody alerted me to an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/\" Target=\"Offsite\">electoral poll<\/a> website.  This guy is combining lots of individual state polls to predict the outcome of each state, and projecting that into a total electoral vote prediction.  I&#8217;m not a statistician, so I don&#8217;t know how valid this kind of process is, but it&#8217;s interesting. I guess the most obvious problem is that so many states are so close that a small polling error can throw the state the other way and make a big difference in the totals.  Regardless of its accuracy, or lack thereof, it&#8217;s an interesting source of information (and humor), and I think I&#8217;ll be keeping an eye on it for the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody alerted me to an interesting electoral poll website. This guy is combining lots of individual state polls to predict the outcome of each state, and projecting that into a total electoral vote prediction. I&#8217;m not a statistician, so I don&#8217;t know how valid this kind of process is, but it&#8217;s interesting. I guess the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=186\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting Poll Site<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-30","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}