{"id":304,"date":"2016-12-01T16:37:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T16:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssremployability\/?p=304"},"modified":"2016-12-01T16:37:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T16:37:09","slug":"q-step-pubtalk-trump-and-brexit-the-end-of-political-polling-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/2016\/12\/01\/q-step-pubtalk-trump-and-brexit-the-end-of-political-polling-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Q Step PubTalk &#8211; &#8220;Trump and Brexit: the end of political polling&#8221; tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Trump and Brexit: the end of\u00a0political\u00a0polling?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/211546912617789\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: blue;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><u>Thursday 1st December, 7pm, The Jolly Sailor<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">The last six months have seen two cataclysmic events in politics. The UK voted to leave the EU, and Donald Trump was elected to the White House. Most polls saw neither result coming. In 2015, after the general election polling \u2018miss&#8217; in Britain, questions were raised over the value of polling, with one Labour peer saying polls were \u2018corrupt&#8217; and should be banned during election campaigns. After the polling fiascos of 2016, this debate is set to ignite once again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">\u00a0In light of this, Q-Step are excited to host tonight a panel discussion followed by a Q&amp;A on the future of opinion polling in politics. Should polls be banned? Are they reliable anymore? What worth do they have for democracies today?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/staff\/assistant-lecturers\/townsley.html\"><u><span style=\"color: #0563c1\">Josh Townsley<\/span><\/u><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/studying\/postgraduate\/research\/research-students\/goddard.html\"><u><span style=\"color: #0563c1\">Dee Goddard<\/span><\/u><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/staff\/assistant-lecturers\/bridgewater.html\"><u><span style=\"color: #0563c1\">Jack Bridgewater<\/span><\/u><\/a>\u00a0and Tom Barton will lead the discussion on\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\">Thursday 1<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">st<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0December<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/maps\/place\/The+Jolly+Sailor\/@51.2822397,1.0834511,15z\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x37edd5fb2047d1af?sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwie3-iH4eTPAhVhDMAKHdHjD-cQ_BIIeTAK\"><u><span style=\"color: #0563c1\">The Jolly Sailor<\/span><\/u><\/a>\u00a0please arrive from 7pm for a 7.30pm start.\u00a0As always, the evenings are free to attend and anyone is welcome to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump and Brexit: the end of\u00a0political\u00a0polling? Thursday 1st December, 7pm, The Jolly Sailor \u00a0The last six months have seen two cataclysmic events in politics. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/2016\/12\/01\/q-step-pubtalk-trump-and-brexit-the-end-of-political-polling-tonight\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[143217,143219,143234],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}