{"id":886,"date":"2006-11-03T00:23:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T05:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=886"},"modified":"2010-11-10T06:29:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T11:29:21","slug":"will-grams-only-get-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"Will Grams only get 21%?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realized right away that the poll commissioned by KBJR TV was deeply flawed when they said it was only conducted in six counties of the 18 in the Congressional District. I assumed (correctly) that the counties were the heart of Oberstar territory immediately surrounding Duluth. Had the other 12 counties been polled they would have given Grams another 10%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twincitynews.net\/minneapolis\/does_media_bias_either_unintentional_or_intentional_get_any_worse_than_this_it_is_hard_to_imagine_it_could\">This site has the details.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would point out two things that may help me. This poll was taken last week before my TV advertising began. I believe my advertising will hurt Oberstar in the six county region covered by Duluth television.<\/p>\n<p>This poll took place before the crude and embarassing Grams mailing showing Jim Oberstar with numbers across his chest as though he was a convict and calling him a &#8220;serial job killer.&#8221; I suspect some moderate Republicans will be annoyed enough with these crude tactics that they may be inclined to vote for me rather than Rod Grams.<\/p>\n<p>I may yet get 5% despite the 2% predictions from the poll which, in any event, must have had a 4% margin of error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized right away that the poll commissioned by KBJR TV was deeply flawed when they said it was only conducted in six counties&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-2006","category-harrys-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}