{"id":99,"date":"2004-04-07T07:34:36","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T12:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=99"},"modified":"2004-04-07T07:34:36","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T12:34:36","slug":"418-americans-cant-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"418 Americans Can&#8217;t Be Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Pew Research Center announced the results of their recent <a href=\"http:\/\/customwire.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/I\/IRAQ_POLL?SITE=MAHYC&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" target=\"_blank\">poll<\/a>, sample size 790, on Bush&#8217;s current approval rating, a low for the 3 1\/2 dismal years of his presidency.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nThis April, the cruelest month, Bush&#8217;s overall job approval rating is 43 percent, compared to 56 percent in January.<br \/>\nThis is interpreted as a reaction to the deaths of the 4 mercenaries in Fallujah, along with concern about rising gas prices.  Leave it to the pundits to combine the tragic with the self-serving in their &#8220;read&#8221; of the public mind.<br \/>\nRegardless of the reasons, it&#8217;s reassuring to see that at least some Americans &#8220;get it&#8221;, even if it&#8217;s only 43 percent of only 790 of us.<br \/>\nPostScript:  you&#8217;ll noticed that I&#8217;ve disabled comments on this post.  That&#8217;s because some spammer swill invaded this weblog with unwanted ads.  No personal affront intended to the actual people who read this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Pew Research Center announced the results of their recent poll, sample size 790, on Bush&#8217;s current approval rating, a low for the 3 1\/2 dismal years of his presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}