{"id":1348,"date":"2011-03-27T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T14:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2011-03-27T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T14:53:11","slug":"making-sense-of-contradictory-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=1348","title":{"rendered":"Making sense of contradictory polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two pieces worth reading on the recent batch of seemingly contradictory polls, and what they might mean:<\/p>\n<p>The mysterious (and always instructive)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tcnorris.blogspot.com\/\">tcnorris<\/a> compares the implications of two groupings of polls &#8212; those with the Tories running strong, and those with them running in traditional low-to-mid 30s territory.<\/p>\n<p>On the Globe website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/the-best-and-worst-harper-ignatieff-and-layton-can-expect-from-an-election\/article1958461\/\">Eric Grenier<\/a> of 308, goes at similar issues in a slightly different way.<\/p>\n<p><em>Paul Adams is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton. He is a former Parliament Hill reporter and worked in the polling industry. You can follow him on Twitter @padams29<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Adams Two pieces worth reading on the recent batch of seemingly contradictory polls, and what they might mean: The mysterious (and always instructive)\u00a0tcnorris compares the implications of two groupings of polls &#8212; those with the Tories running strong, and those with them running in traditional low-to-mid 30s territory. On the Globe website, Eric Grenier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}