{"id":175709,"date":"2024-04-05T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diypotus.com\/polls-show-trump-winning-key-swing-states-thats-partly-a-failure-of-the-press-margaret-sullivan\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T10:01:00","slug":"polls-show-trump-winning-key-swing-states-thats-partly-a-failure-of-the-press-margaret-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diypotus.com\/polls-show-trump-winning-key-swing-states-thats-partly-a-failure-of-the-press-margaret-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Polls show Trump winning key swing states. That\u2019s partly a failure of the press | Margaret Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls can\u2019t predict \u2013 but they <em>can <\/em>warn. And I\u2019m not sure our horserace-obsessed media are heeding the warning<\/p>\n<p>I learned the hard way to be skeptical about the predictive power of public opinion polls.<\/p>\n<p>I remember election night 2016 all too well, as I hit delete on my partially pre-written Washington Post column and instead tried to look into the future of a Trump presidency. It was a future that wasn\u2019t supposed to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/apr\/05\/polls-trump-winning-swing-states-press-failure\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/apr\/05\/polls-trump-winning-swing-states-press-failure\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/joebiden<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls can\u2019t predict \u2013 but they can warn. And I\u2019m not sure our horserace-obsessed media are heeding the warning I learned the hard way to be skeptical about the predictive power of public opinion polls. I remember election night 2016 all too well, as I hit delete on my partially pre-written Washington Post column and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[242,231,224],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diypotus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diypotus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diypotus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diypotus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diypotus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diypotus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diypotus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diypotus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diypotus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}