{"id":7389,"date":"2006-05-12T10:12:26","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7389"},"modified":"2006-05-12T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T14:12:26","slug":"the-20s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-20s\/","title":{"rendered":"The 20s"},"content":{"rendered":"

The difference between a 31% [tag]approval rating[\/tag] and a 29% approval rating isn’t much, but there seems to be something psychologically significant about breaking into the 20s. It’s the tier at which Nixon was driven from office. It’s the level that [tag]Carter[\/tag] and [tag]Bush[\/tag] the elder never reached.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, ABC News’ The Note, which frequently helps capture insider conventional wisdom, reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What would be on The Note’s to-do list if it had the [White House chief of staff] position today?<\/p>\n

1. Whatever it takes, do not let the President’s job approval rating fall into the 20s in any public [tag]survey[\/tag].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With this in mind, the latest [tag]poll[\/tag] from [tag]Harris Interactive[\/tag]<\/a> has to be considered bad news.<\/p>\n

President Bush’s job approval rating has fallen to 29%, its lowest mark of his presidency, and down 6% in one month, according to a new Harris poll. And this was before Thursday’s revelations about NSA phone surveillance.<\/p>\n

Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an “excellent or pretty good” job as president, down from 35% in April and 43% in January.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is, however, one important caveat: Harris Interactive conducts its surveys online<\/a><\/strike>. The methodology has faced considerable criticism for years, though Harris and the Wall Street Journal vigorously defend it. [Editor’s note<\/em>: My mistake. It was a telephone poll.]<\/p>\n

In terms of political salience, the “Bush hits the 20s” story probably won’t be quite as a big a deal until it happens in one of the traditional national polls. In other words, give it a week or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The difference between a 31% [tag]approval rating[\/tag] and a 29% approval rating isn’t much, but there seems to be something psychologically significant about breaking into the 20s. It’s the tier at which Nixon was driven from office. It’s the level that [tag]Carter[\/tag] and [tag]Bush[\/tag] the elder never reached. Earlier this week, ABC News’ The Note, […]<\/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-7389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389","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=7389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}