{"id":4712,"date":"2005-07-15T12:11:32","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T16:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2005-07-15T12:11:32","modified_gmt":"2005-07-15T16:11:32","slug":"how-low-can-he-go-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/how-low-can-he-go-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How low can he go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the week, we saw an NBC\/WSJ poll that showed Bush&#8217;s support dropping, particularly the percentage of Americans who believe Bush is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4691.html\">honest and straightforward<\/a>&#8221; falling to 41%.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was taken, however, shortly before Karl Rove&#8217;s &#8220;difficulties&#8221; burst onto the front page. The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2005-07-15-poll-transit-attack_x.htm\">AP-Ipsos poll<\/a> was conducted entirely this week, and it has Bush&#8217;s overall approval rating dropping to 42%, down slightly from a poll taken last month.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there were no questions regarding the Plame Game scandal, so we don&#8217;t know exactly how the news is affecting public opinion, but some observers suspected that the attack in London last week may give Bush a boost as attention shifted back towards a terrorist threat, which for inexplicable reasons is considered a Bush strength. Regardless, that didn&#8217;t happen and Bush&#8217;s support remains weak.<\/p>\n<p>How weak? The president&#8217;s 42% support is, the AP noted, &#8220;as low as they have ever been since the AP-Ipsos poll was started in December 2003.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not exactly the kind of numbers a White House is looking for to survive a scandal and push a conservative Supreme Court nominee through the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the week, we saw an NBC\/WSJ poll that showed Bush&#8217;s support dropping, particularly the percentage of Americans who believe Bush is &#8220;honest and straightforward&#8221; falling to 41%. The poll was taken, however, shortly before Karl Rove&#8217;s &#8220;difficulties&#8221; burst onto the front page. The new AP-Ipsos poll was conducted entirely this week, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}