{"id":1617,"date":"2006-08-22T08:32:43","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T08:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/08\/polling_figures\/"},"modified":"2006-08-22T08:32:43","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T08:32:43","slug":"polling_figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/polling_figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Polling Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/conservatives\/story\/0,,1855568,00.html\">Fascinating piece<\/A> in this morning&#8217;s Guardian with a new poll showing the Tories leading Labour by nine points now. Tony&#8217;s got to be worried. How long&#8217;s he going to hang on and let the Tories extend their lead?<br \/>\nWhat I find especially interesting are some of the other questions that were asked at the same time.<br \/>\n<I>When it comes to potential terrorist threats against this country, do you think that the government&#8230;<br \/>\nExaggerates the threat 21%<br \/>\nTells the truth about the threat 20%<br \/>\nTells less than it knows about the threat 51%<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t know 9% <\/I><br \/>\nSo <I>only<\/I> 20% of people believe that we&#8217;re being told the truth about terrorist threats in this country? Well a number of people have now been charged, but it&#8217;ll be a couple of years before they finally come to trial and we learn the truth.<br \/>\nOh, and it&#8217;s great that you can get full details of the poll at their contractor&#8217;s website, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.icmresearch.co.uk\/reviews\/2006\/Guardian%20-%20August\/guardian-august-2006-version1.asp\">ICMresearch.<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating piece in this morning&#8217;s Guardian with a new poll showing the Tories leading Labour by nine points now. Tony&#8217;s got to be worried. How long&#8217;s he going to hang on and let the Tories extend their lead? What I find especially interesting are some of the other questions that were asked at the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}