{"id":2610,"date":"2017-04-19T07:47:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T22:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:44:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:44:47","slug":"poll-results-you-wont-see-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/poll-results-you-wont-see-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll Results You Won&#8217;t See Reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was <del>wasting time<\/del> looking through the Rasmussen site earlier and came across their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/mood_of_america\/right_direction_wrong_track_apr17\">survey<\/a> about whether the country is headed in the right direction or on the wrong track. Surprisingly, the numbers look pretty good right now, especially when compared to the entire Obama regime. The trend for<em> right direction<\/em> has been positive since the election, reaching values unseen in the entire tenure of Mr. Obama.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2611\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/right-300x188.png\" alt=\"right\" width=\"418\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/right-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/right-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/right-239x150.png 239w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/right.png 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since there are fluctuations in this statistic, I&#8217;ve also plotted a four-week moving average along with a polynomial fit. Not to make too much of this but clearly the trend is favorable. Even discounting the rececnt spike as anomalous, the numbers for the early Trump administration rival or exceed those for the early Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2612\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/avg2-300x188.png\" alt=\"avg2\" width=\"426\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/avg2-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/avg2-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/avg2-239x150.png 239w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/avg2.png 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2610\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2610\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wasting time looking through the Rasmussen site earlier and came across their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/mood_of_america\/right_direction_wrong_track_apr17\">survey<\/a> about whether the country is headed in the right direction or on the wrong track. Surprisingly, the numbers look pretty good right now, especially when compared to the entire Obama regime. The trend for<em> right direction<\/em> has been positive since the election, reaching values unseen in the entire tenure of Mr. Obama.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2611\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/right-300x188.png\" alt=\"right\" width=\"418\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/right-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/right-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/right-239x150.png 239w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/right.png 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since there are fluctuations in this statistic, I&#8217;ve also plotted a four-week moving average along with a polynomial fit. Not to make too much of this but clearly the trend is favorable. Even discounting the rececnt spike &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/poll-results-you-wont-see-reported\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}