{"id":1219,"date":"2009-09-17T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/09\/what-the-hell-are-they-growing-in-the-garden-state.html"},"modified":"2009-09-17T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T02:24:00","slug":"what-hell-are-they-growing-in-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/09\/what-hell-are-they-growing-in-garden.html","title":{"rendered":"What the Hell Are They Growing in the Garden State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public Policy Polling ran a survey in the state of New Jersey.  They appear to be a reputable polling organization, so it&#8217;s a bit difficult to explain the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicpolicypolling.com\/pdf\/PPP_Release_NJ_916.pdf\">following data (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>There is a fair amount of political extremism among New Jersey voters, as there is<br \/>everywhere right now. 21% of voters in the state don\u2019t think Barack Obama is a natural<br \/>born US citizen and 19% believe George W. Bush had advance knowledge of 9\/11. 8%<br \/>of voters go so far as to say they think Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously?  Birthers, and truthers, and nutters, oh my!  Not only do 1 in 12 think he&#8217;s the Anti-Christ, but an additional 13% said they weren&#8217;t sure!<\/p>\n<p>PPP says they are taking this poll national to see if they get similar results.  I&#8217;m frankly a little afraid.  New Jersey tends to lean to the blue, how will Texas poll?  I&#8217;m forced to think that something must be amiss with the data or the survey.  This can&#8217;t be right, can it?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Policy Polling ran a survey in the state of New Jersey. They appear to be a reputable polling organization,<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/09\/what-hell-are-they-growing-in-garden.html\" title=\"Read What the Hell Are They Growing in the Garden State?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}