{"id":967,"date":"2007-09-02T05:02:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T12:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2007-09-03T08:07:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T15:07:22","slug":"carlsbadistan-poll-results-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbadistan Poll Results #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Poll3\"<\/a>The Carlsbadistan<\/em> poll proves it: Carlsbad hates tourists.<\/p>\n

In our last poll we asked you what Carlsbad could should to do to attract more visitors. A full 67 percent said that we should not nothing because “too many tourons here already.” And only 17 percent thought more brand name shopping would help.<\/p>\n

Apparently, no one has been to South Dakota’s leading tourist attraction: Reptile Gardens<\/a><\/strong>. Anyone who’s paid a quarter to lose a game of tic-tac-toe to a chicken in a glass box would have voted for Carlsbad’s own version of The Gardens. <\/p>\n

And it figures, if we hate tourists then why build them any upscale hotels on the beach. That answer tied with Reptile Gardens with only eight percent.<\/p>\n

As for turn out at the polls, we didn’t fair so well. We tried to improve voter turn out by leaving the question up for a full month. But we still didn’t see much participation. That tells us a few things: <\/p>\n

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  1. We don’t have many readers<\/li>\n
  2. Our questions are apparently the opposite of compelling<\/li>\n
  3. The readers we do have aren’t interested in sharing their views<\/li>\n
  4. We need to update the poll a lot more often. Weekly for example.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Well this week were going to change all that. There is nothing people love more than talking about themselves so we’re going to do a little market research and find out where our visitors are dialing in from. Look over in the right column under the words “What Do You Think” and let us know what you call home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Carlsbadistan poll proves it: Carlsbad hates tourists. In our last poll we asked you what Carlsbad could should to do to attract more visitors. A full 67 percent said that we should not nothing because “too many tourons here already.” And only 17 percent thought more brand name shopping would help. Apparently, no one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}