{"id":986435,"date":"2026-08-07T09:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T09:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/986435\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T09:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T09:12:18","slug":"how-to-read-the-polls-if-you-really-want-to-get-israels-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/986435\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Read the Polls if You Really Want to Get Israel&#8217;s Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">It&#8217;s poll obsession time somewhere in the world \u2013 actually everywhere, all the time. Maybe you got burned by Democratic Senate primary polls in Michigan showing a double-digit lead for Abdul El-Sayed in five separate late-stage polls, only to see him win by a single percentage point. Maybe you want to know whether your favorite new, small, or pop-up party in Israel will cross the electoral threshold \u2013 either way, this column is for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s poll obsession time somewhere in the world \u2013 actually everywhere, all the time. Maybe you got burned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":986436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[372,26903,99,310396,26902,46360,50,31820,395603,363292],"class_list":["post-986435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-israel","tag-israel-elections-2026","tag-israeli-politics","tag-likud","tag-news","tag-together","tag-united-arab-list","tag-yashar"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117053459402794959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/986436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}