{"id":6200,"date":"2016-09-23T04:01:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T04:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/23\/an-unpollable-election\/"},"modified":"2016-09-23T04:01:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T04:01:30","slug":"an-unpollable-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/23\/an-unpollable-election\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unpollable Election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-year-of-the-reticent-voter-1474586866\">Peggy Noonan<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">The most arresting sentence of the week came from a sophisticated Manhattan man friendly with all sides. I asked if he knows what he\u2019ll do in November. \u201cI know exactly,\u201d he said with some spirit. \u201cI will be one of the 40 million who will deny, the day after the election, that they voted for him. But I will.\u201d&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">A high elected official, a Republican, got a faraway took when I asked what he thought was going to happen. \u201cThis is the unpollable election,\u201d he said. People don\u2019t want to tell you who they\u2019re for. A lot aren\u2019t sure. A lot don\u2019t want to be pressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">That\u2019s exactly what I\u2019ve seen the past few weeks in North Carolina, New Jersey, Tennessee and Minnesota.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">[. . .]&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Mr. Trump\u2019s advantage? \u201cAmericans love to say they think outside the box. Trump lives outside the box. Hillary <em>is <\/em>the box.\u201d [Noonan quoting Kellyanne Conway, Trump&#39;s campaign manager.]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peggy Noonan: The most arresting sentence of the week came from a sophisticated Manhattan man friendly with all sides. I asked if he knows what he\u2019ll do in November. \u201cI know exactly,\u201d he said with some spirit. \u201cI will be one of the 40 million who will deny, the day after the election, that they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/23\/an-unpollable-election\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Unpollable Election?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}