{"id":14513,"date":"2016-05-10T15:39:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14513"},"modified":"2016-05-10T15:39:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:39:44","slug":"let-the-horse-race-coverage-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14513","title":{"rendered":"Let the horse-race &#8230; coverage &#8230; continue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/polls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12432\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/polls-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"polls\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you thought the media have done a terrible job of reporting on politics and policy &#8212; relying too heavily on polls &#8212; get ready for what&#8217;s to come.<\/p>\n<p>The coverage is going to get worse.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming presidential campaign between Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Donald J. Trump is going to fill us to the brim with news about the &#8220;horse race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to be listening to evening news reports that will begin with coverage of the latest polls.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has fed that narrative repeatedly during his amazing &#8212; and stunningly surprising &#8212; march to the GOP nomination. He takes the podium and blusters about his standing in the polls. The media cover it. Why? Because the public wants it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump dismisses polls that show him trailing. He trumpets polls that show him standing tall over his fallen competitors.<\/p>\n<p>And, yep, the media continue to cover it.<\/p>\n<p>Look at me! I&#8217;m devoting an entire blog post to the coverage of polling in this upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken the bait. Swallowed it. Damn near <em>choked<\/em> on it, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping we start paying more careful attention to what these candidates are going to say about things that matter. Policy stuff matters.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign policy counts. Domestic policy affects our lives. Taxes. The environment. Economic policy. Those are the things that should have us riveted on this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>They won&#8217;t. The media will continue to report on polls. Who&#8217;s up? Who&#8217;s down? Election probability will be the No. 1 topic of every news cycle &#8212; which, of course, has become a 24\/7 phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all get ready for a wild ride.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought the media have done a terrible job of reporting on politics and policy &#8212; relying too heavily on polls &#8212; get ready for what&#8217;s to come. The coverage is going to get worse. The upcoming presidential campaign between Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Donald J. Trump is going to fill us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let the horse-race &#8230; coverage &#8230; continue<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,14],"tags":[73,1424,2139,6162,3661],"class_list":["post-14513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-campaign","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-political-media","tag-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14516,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513\/revisions\/14516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}