{"id":2262,"date":"2009-12-31T10:24:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T14:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2009-12-31T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T14:25:24","slug":"obamas-popularity-continues-to-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/obamas-popularity-continues-to-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s popularity continues to slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It must be a significant drop in approval ratings, as even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/democracyinamerica\/2009\/12\/this_weeks_economistyougov_pol_25&#038;sa_campaign=twitter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Economist<\/em><\/a> is discussing it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Obama_approval_20091230.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Obama_approval_20091230.jpg\" alt=\"Obama_approval_20091230\" title=\"Obama_approval_20091230\" width=\"396\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Obama_approval_20091230.jpg 396w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Obama_approval_20091230-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s approval rating at the end of 2009 marks an all-time low for him in the <em>Economist<\/em>\/YouGov poll, and it is the first time more Americans disapprove than approve of the way he is handling his job. Mr Obama began his term with a 61% approval rating, while only 17% of Americans disapproved. As 2009 ends, only 45% approve of the way Mr Obama is handling his job, while 47% now disapprove. <\/p>\n<p>The president has suffered a drop in approval from just about all groups, demographic and political. But perhaps most striking has been his loss of support from independents. In January&#8217;s poll, 64% of independents approved of how he handled the start of his presidency (and the days leading up to it). Now just 43% do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be a significant drop in approval ratings, as even The Economist is discussing it: Barack Obama&#8217;s approval rating at the end of 2009 marks an all-time low for him in the Economist\/YouGov poll, and it is the first time more Americans disapprove than approve of the way he is handling his job. Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[158,289],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-polls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Au","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}