{"id":12621,"date":"2014-11-03T21:04:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T02:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=12621"},"modified":"2014-11-05T11:12:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:12:56","slug":"the-problem-with-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-problem-with-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with elections &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/liars2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/liars2-640x547.jpg\" alt=\"A waste of good trees\" width=\"640\" height=\"547\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/liars2-640x547.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/liars2-1024x876.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2026 is that only half of the candidates lose.<\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/392038\/polls-were-really-really-david-french\" target=\"_blank\">An interesting footnote to yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update II: <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-polls-were-skewed-toward-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">A footnote to the footnote<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 is that only half of the candidates lose. Update: An interesting footnote to yesterday. Update II: A footnote to the footnote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-3hz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12621"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12633,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621\/revisions\/12633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}