{"id":23328,"date":"2016-08-04T13:31:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T20:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23328"},"modified":"2016-08-04T13:31:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T20:31:44","slug":"poll-results-842016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/04\/poll-results-842016\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll Results &#8211; 8\/4\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here are the results of our \u201cHow Superdelegates Should Vote\u201d poll.&#160; Politics Plus Polls are not scientific, because those who respond are not balanced according to demographic categories.&#160;&#160; Therefore, we do not accurately reflect the makeup of the US population.&#160; Nevertheless, our polls are usually factually accurate, and more often than not, they reflect thinking or will of the national majority.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0804Poll\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0804Poll\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0804Poll.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Since our polling site no longer enables us to copy and paste your poll comments, you may <a href=\"http:\/\/poll.pollcode.com\/85948954_result?v\" target=\"_blank\">read them here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I voted with the majority, of course.&#160; However, the one thing that struck me as a non sequitur&#160; is that most of the people that talked about wanting the Superdelegates to override the voters&#8217; will also discussed wanting to remove them altogether.&#160; I have said they should be removed for many years, because they should never be allowed to override the primary and caucus results.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A new poll is up.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the results of our \u201cHow Superdelegates Should Vote\u201d poll.&#160; Politics Plus Polls are not scientific, because those who respond are not balanced according to demographic categories.&#160;&#160; Therefore, we do not accurately reflect the makeup of the US population.&#160; Nevertheless, our polls are usually factually accurate, and more often than not, they reflect thinking <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/04\/poll-results-842016\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-news","category-politics","category-31-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}