{"id":694318,"date":"2026-10-28T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=694318"},"modified":"2026-10-28T11:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:35:02","slug":"what-the-midterm-senate-polls-wont-tell-you-and-where-they-might-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=694318","title":{"rendered":"What The Midterm Senate Polls Won\u2019t Tell You (And Where They Might Be Wrong)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Truman-Dewey-polls-1948-e1793184281907-1158x675.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Political cartoon depicting Harry Truman and Thomas Dewey.\" \/>Polling this midterm election has been especially unreliable, but looking at past polling results might be useful for understanding what could happen.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Truman-Dewey-polls-1948-e1793184281907-1158x675.jpg\" title=\"What The Midterm Senate Polls Won\u2019t Tell You (And Where They Might Be Wrong)\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polling this midterm election has been especially unreliable, but looking at past polling results might be useful for understanding what could happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}