{"id":4419,"date":"2008-02-05T03:38:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T03:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dnc_lodges_complaint_over_evangelical_polling\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T03:38:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T03:38:01","slug":"dnc_lodges_complaint_over_evangelical_polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4419","title":{"rendered":"DNC Lodges Complaint Over Evangelical Polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has sent a public letter to national election pollsters, blasting them for only asking Republicans about their religious practices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far, exit polls, media reports and pundits have largely missed the story because they&#8217;re using an outdated script, which leaves the impression that religion and faith matter only to Republicans,&#8221; Dean said in a letter on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Following on earlier complaints by progressive evangelicals, Dean notes that Democratic voters in the Iowa caucuses and Michigan primary weren&#8217;t asked about their religion, while Republicans were. In South Carolina, exit pollsters asked Republicans extensively about their faith, while Democrats were only asked how often they attend worship services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/article_detail.cfm?AID=10044\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has sent a public letter to national election pollsters, blasting them for only asking Republicans about their religious practices. &#8220;So far, exit polls, media reports and pundits have largely missed the story<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4419\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,108,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-culture","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}