{"id":10331,"date":"2011-07-05T17:28:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T21:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10331"},"modified":"2011-07-05T17:28:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T21:28:29","slug":"supreme-court-the-most-conservative-part-of-government-receives-the-highest-public-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10331\/supreme-court-the-most-conservative-part-of-government-receives-the-highest-public-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court:  The Most Conservative Part of Government Receives the Highest Public Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to attribute Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/obama_administration\/obama_approval_index_month_by_month\" target=\"_blank\">poor approval ratings<\/a> to generic anti-government sentiment and\/or ongoing economic difficulty, citing Congress&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/mood_of_america\/congressional_favorability_ratings\" target=\"_blank\">low approval<\/a> as supporting evidence.\u00a0 But a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/mood_of_america\/supreme_court_update\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmussen poll<\/a> shows something interesting.\u00a0 Namely, that the most conservative portion of our federal government receives the highest approval ratings from the public.\u00a0 In fact, the number of respondents stating that the Supreme Court is doing a &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;excellent&#8221; job (35%) is approximately double the number who rate its performance as poor (18%).<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, by a 31% to 26% margin, respondents believe the Supreme Court is too liberal, not too conservative.\u00a0 Interesting insight for elected officials, and especially candidates, to ponder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to attribute Obama&#8217;s poor approval ratings to generic anti-government sentiment and\/or ongoing economic difficulty, citing Congress&#8217;s low approval as supporting evidence.\u00a0 But a recent Rasmussen poll shows something interesting.\u00a0 Namely, that the most conservative portion of our federal government receives the highest approval ratings from the public.\u00a0 In fact, the number of respondents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2839,24,894,85,92],"class_list":["post-10331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-approval","tag-obama","tag-public-opinion","tag-rasmussen","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10332,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331\/revisions\/10332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}