Here’s something that continually puzzles me.<\/p>\n
Media figures, often suggesting hope as much as sober analysis, counter Barack Obama’s terrible standing in opinion polls<\/a> by pointing out that Congressional Republicans are even less popular<\/a>.\u00a0 The first problem, of course, is that Obama’s opponent in November 2012 won’t be named “Congressional Republicans.”\u00a0 Secondly, animosity toward Congress is typically uncentered, as illustrated by the fact that incumbents maintain phenomenal reelection records even in anti-incumbent years.\u00a0 In other words, people walking into the voting booth seem to think, “Congress is full of bums, but my Representative is OK.”<\/p>\n But here’s another point nobody seems to highlight.\u00a0 If Congressional Republicans are so unpopular, or constitute such a nice foil for Obama, why is it that they consistently outperform Congressional Democrats in public esteem?\u00a0 Take a look at this accumulated record of Rasmussen polling<\/a> on the matter.\u00a0 Since January 2010, the earliest date Rasmussen lists, Congressional Republicans have not trailed Congressional Democrats in voter preference even once.\u00a0 Obama can’t seek a job extension based upon his performance record, but the reality is that this particular strategy might not be any more promising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s something that continually puzzles me. Media figures, often suggesting hope as much as sober analysis, counter Barack Obama’s terrible standing in opinion polls by pointing out that Congressional Republicans are even less popular.\u00a0 The first problem, of course, is that Obama’s opponent in November 2012 won’t be named “Congressional Republicans.”\u00a0 Secondly, animosity toward Congress […]<\/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":[914,84,3233,24,991],"class_list":["post-12354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-congress","tag-congressional-republicans","tag-obama","tag-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354","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=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12360,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions\/12360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}