{"id":2986,"date":"2010-02-24T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2010-02-24T12:15:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:15:58","slug":"low-approval-ratings-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2986","title":{"rendered":"Low Approval Ratings: Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Democrats in Congress refused to vote for Republican bills during the Bush administration, they&#8217;d often cite the President&#8217;s poor approval rating numbers as demonstrating that the country didn&#8217;t want what Republicans were selling.&#160; Never mind that their own approval ratings were often lower, that reason was used as a bludgeon over and over.<\/p>\n<p>While Obama&#8217;s number have been tanking faster than any President in half a century, he&#8217;s not at Dubya-depths yet.&#160; (Though, stay tuned.) Congress, however, can only pine for those heady days of 20-something approval.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Voter unhappiness with Congress has reached the highest level ever recorded by Rasmussen Reports as 71% now say the legislature is doing a poor job. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s up ten points from the previous high of 61% reached <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/mood_of_america\/mood_of_america_archive\/congressional_performance\/61_say_congress_doing_a_poor_job\">a month ago<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Only 10% of voters say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think legislation passage should <em>necessarily<\/em> be tied to approval ratings, but if you live by the polls, you&#8217;ll die by the polls. Will this Democratic Congress judge itself by the same standard it holds others to?<\/p>\n<p>(Hint: No.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Democrats in Congress refused to vote for Republican bills during the Bush administration, they&#8217;d often cite the President&#8217;s poor approval rating numbers as demonstrating that the country didn&#8217;t want what Republicans were selling.&#160; Never mind that their own approval ratings were often lower, that reason was used as a bludgeon over and over. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,26,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-politics","category-polls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","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=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}