{"id":31000,"date":"2012-10-31T23:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/31\/polling.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:47:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:47:01","slug":"polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/31\/polling.html","title":{"rendered":"Polling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bad part of all the polling and surveys isn't the polling and surveys themselves, but the endless, endless<\/i> nattering over them, in more earnest detail than even the sales folks for the survey\u00a0companies could suggest with a straight face.<\/p>\n

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The bad part of all the polling and surveys isn't the polling and surveys themselves, but the endless, endless nattering over them, in more earnest detail than even the sales folks for the survey\u00a0companies could suggest with a straight face. 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