{"id":986,"date":"2011-02-27T19:38:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T08:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=986"},"modified":"2011-07-01T13:06:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T03:06:52","slug":"nothing-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2011\/02\/nothing-wins-986.html","title":{"rendered":"35377 People Have Voted… Nothing Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since October 2006 I have been running a poll at Survive 2012<\/a>, and with 35377 votes I think we have an accurate reflection of what visitors to my site think will happen in 2012:<\/p>\n

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Nothing wins, with just over 56% of the vote. I was surprised that TEOTWAWKI came in second, and that aliens beat a religious rapture. Over half of my visitors are from the USA, and I would’ve expected rapture to do better than last.<\/p>\n

Most people find Survive 2012 by searching for “2012” in their favorite search engine, and for many it is the first site they visit after discovering the 2012 meme. Consequently poll respondents are likely to be new to the concept and yet to form their final opinion. I would expect a poll of the general public (rather than people already interested in 2012) would have 99%+ saying that nothing will happen in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since October 2006 I have been running a poll at Survive 2012, and with 35377 votes I think we have an accurate reflection of what visitors to my site think will happen in 2012:<\/p>\n

Nothing wins, with just over 56% of the vote. I was surprised that TEOTWAWKI came in second, and that aliens beat a religious rapture. Over half of my visitors are from the USA, and I would’ve expected rapture to do better than last.
\nMost people find Survive 2012 by searching for “2012” in their favorite search engine, and for many it is the first site they visit after discovering the 2012 meme. Consequently poll respondents are likely to be new to the concept and yet to form their final opinion. I would expect a poll of the general public (rather than people already interested in 2012) would have 99%+ saying that nothing will happen in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327],"tags":[427,428],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-websites","tag-poll","tag-survey-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}