{"id":3530,"date":"2021-07-11T15:35:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T20:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2021-07-11T15:35:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T20:35:30","slug":"pushing-the-pollster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/11\/pushing-the-pollster\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing The Pollster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Got a call today from a push polling outfit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you don&#8217;t really think that government is the answer to, well, much of anything, questions about whether you think your representative in the state capitol is doing a good job by pushing the government-enforced monopoly to lower prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Has your impression of <strong>$Local_Democratic_Delegate<\/strong> improved because his effort to have electricity savings sent back to residents?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Has your impression of <strong>$Local_Democratic_Delegate<\/strong> improved because he&#8217;s trying to lower prescription drug prices for Medicare recepients?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*confused silence*<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a nice day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local communicatees should be handling electricity;  maybe individual neighborhoods\/developments\/etc&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why would increasing the amount of government influence over any of it raise my impression of a particular politician?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this is what I call my last Saturday before going back to work&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;ll put in for the Monday after the Comedy show I&#8217;m seeing next month off.  Even if it&#8217;s only in DC, I have leave I need to burn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a call today from a push polling outfit. When you don&#8217;t really think that government is the answer to, well, much of anything, questions about whether you think your representative in the state capitol is doing a good job by pushing the government-enforced monopoly to lower prices. &#8220;Has your impression of $Local_Democratic_Delegate improved because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}