{"id":4618,"date":"2009-06-02T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/what-does-wehs-victory-in-non-scientific-poll-mean\/"},"modified":"2009-06-02T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T21:29:00","slug":"what-does-wehs-victory-in-non-scientific-poll-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/what-does-wehs-victory-in-non-scientific-poll-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Weh&#8217;s victory in non-scientific poll mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SiWZ4pQG0fI\/AAAAAAAALtM\/ve5BtseFEXY\/s1600-h\/Weh,+Allen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SiWZ4pQG0fI\/AAAAAAAALtM\/ve5BtseFEXY\/s200\/Weh,+Allen.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342845731370095090\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/weh-forms-gubernatorial-exploratory.html\">Allen Weh<\/a> narrowly won <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/voters-in-poll-split-on-who-should-be.html\">last week\u2019s non-scientific poll<\/a> on this site asking who should be the GOP nominee for governor next year. He\u2019s trying to capitalize on that fact in a news release sent today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While pointing out that the poll isn\u2019t scientific, the news release from the Weh campaign says the poll \u201con one of the state\u2019s most popular political blogs\u201d shows that Weh \u201cis the preferred GOP nominee for governor in 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI\u2019m thankful people took the time to participate,\u201d Weh said in the release. \u201cThe results reveal that New Mexicans believe I\u2019m the strongest candidate to take on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianedenish.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diane Denish<\/a> in 2010. They\u2019re tired of the corruption, and they\u2019re tired of being ignored. It\u2019s time to get state government back to business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While I\u2019m flattered that the Weh campaign takes my site so seriously, the reality is that I intend the non-scientific polls for fun only. It\u2019s no secret that such polls can be manipulated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In my experience, winning a poll on this site, especially when there are a high number of voters, is a sign of a campaign\u2019s organizational strength, if anything. While this site\u2019s polls usually have around 200 voters, this one had 438 voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Which means someone, or more likely more than one someone, made an intentional effort to get people to this site to vote in the poll. Out of that came a Weh victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Take it for what it\u2019s worth. But it\u2019s too early to say that Weh or anyone else is \u201cthe preferred GOP nominee for governor in 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Weh narrowly won last week\u2019s non-scientific poll on this site asking who should be the GOP nominee for governor next year. He\u2019s trying to capitalize on that fact in a news release sent today. While pointing out that the poll isn\u2019t scientific, the news release from the Weh campaign says the poll \u201con one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}