{"id":7674,"date":"2016-03-22T23:04:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T03:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2016-03-22T23:35:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T03:35:41","slug":"political-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7674","title":{"rendered":"Political animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure how it happened, but it appears that I was a successful political animal today. Kevin McCarthy, House leader in the U.S. Congress, held a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/profile\/Kevin-McCarthy\/session\/147\/?__snids__=1606146736&amp;__nsrc__=1&amp;__filter__=all\">question-and-answer session on Quora today<\/a>, and my question (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Do-you-agree-that-Obamas-SCOTUS-nominee-should-not-be-considered-until-after-the-elections\">about Obama&#8217;s SCOTUS nomination<\/a>) turned out to be the top question, which he answered first. Not sure if that is a good thing&#8230; after all, I remember all too well the saying, &#8220;it&#8217;s better to be unknown to the gods than to be loved by them.&#8221; Predictably, the answer was a party line answer with very little information content, but still.<\/p>\n<p>Tempting fate a little further, I also created an updated version of <a href=\"http:\/\/dadaviz.com\/i\/4684\">an infographic<\/a> that compares the truthfulness of presidential candidates. Despite her reputation as untrustworthy, and much to my surprise I admit, Hillary Clinton is still pretty much on top (same number of true\/mostly true answers as Sanders and Kasich, but fewer untruths).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7675\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/truth.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/truth.png 600w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/truth-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not that this will stop Trump&#8217;s supporters from voting for him. They&#8217;ll just declare Politifact biased and full of lies or whatever.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7674' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure how it happened, but it appears that I was a successful political animal today. Kevin McCarthy, House leader in the U.S. Congress, held a question-and-answer session on Quora today, and my question (about Obama&#8217;s SCOTUS nomination) turned out to be the top question, which he answered first. Not sure if that is a <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7674' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7678,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions\/7678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}