{"id":2679,"date":"2009-12-09T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T17:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2009-12-09T12:46:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T17:46:47","slug":"living-and-dying-by-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2679","title":{"rendered":"Living and Dying by the Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"

That was then<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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As President Barack Obama heads to Indiana and Florida over the next two days to sell his economic stimulus plan to a somewhat skeptical Congress, White House and congressional Democrats are moving around new poll data that suggests the public is broadly supportive of the bill.<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs sent out an email to reporters this morning touting the data — from a Gallup survey<\/strong> — that showed roughly two-thirds of the public approves of the way Obama is handling the passage of the economic stimulus package while just 31 percent say the same of congressional Republicans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Emphasis supplied by the NewBusters article, because this is now<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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"If I was a heart patient and Gallup was my EKG I’d visit my doctor," Gibbs said. "If you look back I think five days ago we were, there was an 11 point spread, now there’s a one point spread."<\/p>\n

Gibbs continued, "you know, I mean I’m sure a six year old with a crayon could do something not unlike that. I don\u2019t put a lot of stake in, never have, in the EKG that is the daily Gallup trend. I don\u2019t pay a lot of attention to meaninglessness."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The difference?  The polls were with the President then, and they’re not now.  Obama himself touted Gallup when they were with him.  Now, not so much.  If you are going to push an agenda at least partially on poll numbers, you have to take the good with the bad.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That was then: As President Barack Obama heads to Indiana and Florida over the next two days to sell his economic stimulus plan to a somewhat skeptical Congress, White House and congressional Democrats are moving around new poll data that suggests the public is broadly supportive of the bill. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-polls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}