{"id":175849,"date":"2020-11-12T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/12\/i-just-had-a-real-political-insight\/"},"modified":"2020-11-12T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T00:27:00","slug":"i-just-had-a-real-political-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/12\/i-just-had-a-real-political-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"I Just Had a Real Political Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in an online discussion today about the inaccuracy of the polls, and I noted that one of the issues is that people are no longer answering their phones because of the deluge of robocalls.<\/p>\n<p>And then I made the throw away line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><span style=\"font-size: 130%; font-variant: small-caps;\">If Donald Trump Has Promised to Nuke Bangalore to End the Spam Calls, He Would Have Won 48 States.<\/span><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just realized that there is a real and deep truth, and I made the point by accident.&nbsp; (Which is probably the only way that I could find a deep insight, I&#8217;m kind of shallow.)<\/p>\n<p>Also:&nbsp; If a presidential candidate promises to crack down on robocalls, they will top 400 electoral votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in an online discussion today about the inaccuracy of the polls, and I noted that one of the issues is that people are no longer answering their phones because of the deluge of robocalls. And then I made the throw away line: If Donald Trump Has Promised to Nuke Bangalore to End the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[470,619,504,374,437],"class_list":["post-175849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-communications","tag-deep-thoughts","tag-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}