{"id":17371,"date":"2016-10-03T13:15:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17371"},"modified":"2016-10-03T13:15:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:15:31","slug":"polls-theyre-up-then-theyre-down-then-theyre-up-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17371","title":{"rendered":"Polls: They&#8217;re up, then they&#8217;re down, then they&#8217;re up again"},"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\/10\/hillaryclinton_093016getty_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17372\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hillaryclinton_093016getty_0-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"hillaryclinton_093016getty_0\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hillaryclinton_093016getty_0-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hillaryclinton_093016getty_0.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The political media have this fascination with polling while covering the Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump race for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>It all has given me reason to wonder: How do these polls fluctuate so dramatically so late in this campaign?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/298793-race-breaking-clintons-way\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/298793-race-breaking-clintons-way<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hill reports that Democratic nominee Clinton is now regaining her political footing. Trump, the Republican nominee,\u00a0had a disastrous week and he&#8217;s got seven days to prepare for the next joint appearance with Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Polls in several swing states are now showing Clinton with an advantage where two weeks ago Trump held a slight lead. Florida now tilts toward Clinton; same for Nevada; Ohio is now a dead heat; Pennsylvania is leaning in Clinton&#8217;s direction &#8212; again!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve known about Hillary Clinton for the past 20-plus years. It would seem that voters&#8217; minds are made up. Trump? Well, he&#8217;s quite the &#8220;known quantity&#8221; too, but for entirely different reasons. Americans know him through his reality-TV exposure and his flamboyant reputation as a real estate mogul and, dare I say it, a <em>bon vivant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But the polls go up. Then they go down. Then they go back up again.<\/p>\n<p>Many Americans can&#8217;t seem to make up their minds.<\/p>\n<p>I hate to think we have\u00a0become a nation of wishy-washy\u00a0fence-straddlers.<\/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 political media have this fascination with polling while covering the Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump race for the presidency. It all has given me reason to wonder: How do these polls fluctuate so dramatically so late in this campaign? http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/298793-race-breaking-clintons-way The Hill reports that Democratic nominee Clinton is now regaining her political footing. Trump, the Republican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17371\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Polls: They&#8217;re up, then they&#8217;re down, then they&#8217;re up again<\/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":[1424,2139,3661],"class_list":["post-17371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17371","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=17371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17373,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17371\/revisions\/17373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}