{"id":2013,"date":"2009-08-07T09:31:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T13:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2009-08-07T09:33:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T13:33:50","slug":"worcester-t-g-readers-support-abortion-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/08\/07\/worcester-t-g-readers-support-abortion-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcester T &#038; G Readers Support Abortion Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2014\" title=\"Poll Results\" src=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/File0001.jpg\" alt=\"Poll Results\" width=\"640\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/File0001.jpg 2317w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/File0001-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/File0001-1024x718.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Readers of the Worcester T &amp; G favor a health care overhaul plan providing insurance coverage for abortion procedures by a 65% to 35% majority even though this would be a change in\u00a0 long-standing federal policy.<\/p>\n<p>Just out of curiosity, I wonder what my readers think of the propriety of manipulating the results of an unscientific poll whose stated options are presented in a biased manner.<\/p>\n<p>What if the Worcester T &amp; G had to stop publishing these unscientific and poorly worded polls because they finally realized that the results were being manipulated and they could not prevent it? Would the public be better or worse for the loss of these poll results?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of the Worcester T &amp; G favor a health care overhaul plan providing insurance coverage for abortion procedures by a 65% to 35% majority even though this would be a change in\u00a0 long-standing federal policy. Just out of curiosity, I wonder what my readers think of the propriety of manipulating the results of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}