{"id":5217,"date":"2005-09-09T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2005-09-09T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T17:01:10","slug":"at-what-point-do-republicans-start-running-in-the-opposite-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/at-what-point-do-republicans-start-running-in-the-opposite-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"At what point do Republicans start running in the opposite direction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During their fifth years in the White House, Nixon was caught up in Watergate and LBJ was suffering politically due to Vietnam. And yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000981193\">neither<\/a> saw their approval ratings drop below 42% by the summer of their fifth year in office.<\/p>\n<p>Something to consider while reviewing the latest numbers from polls released over the last week:<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050909\/ap_on_re_us\/katrina_ap_poll_hk1\">Associated Press\/Ipsos<\/a> has Bush&#8217;s approval rating at <b>39%<\/b>, the lowest of Bush&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zogby.com\/news\/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1020\">Zogby<\/a> has Bush&#8217;s approval rating at <b>41%<\/b>, the lowest of Bush&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2005\/09\/08\/opinion\/polls\/main824591.shtml\">CBS<\/a> has Bush&#8217;s approval rating at <b>42%<\/b>, the second lowest of Bush&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/files\/Sept05Katrina.pdf\">Pew Research Center<\/a> has Bush&#8217;s approval rating at <b>40%<\/b>, the lowest of Bush&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Has Bush just about reached the floor, or could his support still drop?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During their fifth years in the White House, Nixon was caught up in Watergate and LBJ was suffering politically due to Vietnam. And yet, neither saw their approval ratings drop below 42% by the summer of their fifth year in office. Something to consider while reviewing the latest numbers from polls released over the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217","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=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}