{"id":238400,"date":"2012-12-10T17:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T17:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/12\/my-critics-lack-knowledge-on-polling-ben-ephson\/"},"modified":"2012-12-10T17:01:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T17:01:34","slug":"my-critics-lack-knowledge-on-polling-ben-ephson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/10\/my-critics-lack-knowledge-on-polling-ben-ephson\/","title":{"rendered":"My Critics Lack knowledge On Polling &#8211; Ben Ephson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/73f1443828759_17565.jpg\" border=\"1\" class=\"c13\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">Pollster Ben Ephson has described his critics as people who are ignorant on the nitty-gritties of polling.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ephson who also host the Ephson&#8217;s File on Radio XYZ 93.1 FM predicted a one-touch victory for president Mahama with votes within the range of 50.2 to 54.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahama was declared the winner of the election with 50.70 percent of valid votes cast. Mr Ephson told XYZ News, after four consecutive successful predictions it is clear that his methods are tried and tested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those who say I concoct figures I might as well stop polling and stake lotto every week, that will be less stressful and more rewarding financially,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP boycotted Sunday\u2019s results declaration by the EC Chairman, Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan. Mr Ephson is also urging the party, especially it\u2019s elected MPs, to work with the majority to enhance Ghana\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pollster Ben Ephson has described his critics as people who are ignorant on the nitty-gritties of polling.Mr Ephson who also host the Ephson&#8217;s File on Radio XYZ 93.1 FM predicted a one-touch victory for president Mahama with votes within the range of 50.2 to 54.2 percent.President Mahama was declared the winner of the election with 50.70 percent of valid votes cast. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>My Critics Lack knowledge On Polling - Ben Ephson - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/10\/my-critics-lack-knowledge-on-polling-ben-ephson\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"My Critics Lack knowledge On Polling - Ben Ephson - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Pollster Ben Ephson has described his critics as people who are ignorant on the nitty-gritties of polling.Mr Ephson who also host the Ephson&#039;s File on Radio XYZ 93.1 FM predicted a one-touch victory for president Mahama with votes within the range of 50.2 to 54.2 percent.President Mahama was declared the winner of the election with 50.70 percent of valid votes cast.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/73f1443828759_17565.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2012\\\/12\\\/10\\\/my-critics-lack-knowledge-on-polling-ben-ephson\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2012\\\/12\\\/10\\\/my-critics-lack-knowledge-on-polling-ben-ephson\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"My Critics Lack knowledge On Polling &#8211; 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