{"id":1769,"date":"2008-10-30T20:15:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T01:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2008-10-31T23:16:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T04:16:55","slug":"for-the-love-of-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1769","title":{"rendered":"For the love of numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest New York Times\/ CBS poll has some interesting things buried down deep in the full report. On page 29, we see that only 22% of those polled consider themselves politically liberal; 38% call themselves moderate; 33% conservative; and 7% didn&#8217;t give an answer. On page 27, we discover that 38% of those polled claim they attend religious services every week or almost every week, while 23% never attend. According to page 9 George W. Bush gets a lowly 22% approval rating, while page 17 reveals that Congress gets a dismal 15% approval rating.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I love about the Web is that you don&#8217;t have to rely on the dumbed-down &#8220;stories&#8221; in which journalists &#8220;interpret&#8221; polls for us &#8212; you can look at the actual questions and responses &#8212; geek heaven! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/packages\/pdf\/politics\/oct08e.trn.pdf\">Link to the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest New York Times\/ CBS poll has some interesting things buried down deep in the full report. On page 29, we see that only 22% of those polled consider themselves politically liberal; 38% call themselves moderate; 33% conservative; and 7% didn&#8217;t give an answer. On page 27, we discover that 38% of those polled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}