{"id":15337,"date":"2016-06-17T19:37:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T19:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15337"},"modified":"2016-06-17T19:37:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T19:37:29","slug":"some-polling-data-to-ponder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15337","title":{"rendered":"Some polling data to ponder"},"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\/06\/th.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15296\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/th-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"th\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The RealClearPolitics.com average of polls is quite a fascinating barometer of the nation&#8217;s political mood.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this bit of information from the latest surveys.<\/p>\n<p>According to RCP, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton holds a 5.8 percent lead nationally over Republican opponent Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, this is an <em>average<\/em> of polls &#8212; some of which lean left, others of which lean right. The RCP average factors all of them.<\/p>\n<p>Now, when you add Libertarian Party nominee &#8212; and former New Mexico Republican governor &#8212; Gary Johnson into the mix, you see something a bit different. Clinton leads the three-way race by 5.3 percent over Trump.<\/p>\n<p>What does that mean? It means to me, at least, that Johnson is pulling nominally more from Clinton than from Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It kind of reminds me of the canard that&#8217;s been tossed around since 1992 about how Ross Perot &#8220;cost&#8221; President Bush his re-election effort against Bill Clinton. The reality was that Clinton was going to win that election anyway, by roughly the same margin with which he won.<\/p>\n<p>Is Gov. Johnson going to become an election\u00a0spoiler? I don&#8217;t see it. At least not yet.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, this is now. These things do change &#8230; don&#8217;t they?<\/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>The RealClearPolitics.com average of polls is quite a fascinating barometer of the nation&#8217;s political mood. Consider this bit of information from the latest surveys. According to RCP, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton holds a 5.8 percent lead nationally over Republican opponent Donald J. Trump. Remember, this is an average of polls &#8212; some of which lean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some polling data to ponder<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337","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=15337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15340,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337\/revisions\/15340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}