{"id":17000,"date":"2013-01-22T16:34:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17000"},"modified":"2013-01-22T16:41:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:41:57","slug":"gallup-obamas-second-inauguration-rated-less-positively-than-bushs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17000\/gallup-obamas-second-inauguration-rated-less-positively-than-bushs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallup:  Obama&#8217;s Second Inauguration Watched Less, Rated Less Positively Than Bush&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thrill is gone, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/160055\/fewer-watch-obama-second-inauguration-first.aspx?utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=syndication&amp;utm_content=plaintextlink&amp;utm_term=All\" target=\"_blank\">Gallup poll<\/a> released today, fewer Americans watched yesterday&#8217;s inaugural ceremony or news coverage of it than they did George W. Bush&#8217;s second inaugural in 2005.\u00a0 Only 38% said that they watched yesterday&#8217;s ceremony, down from 40% in 2005, and only 27% &#8220;watched, listened to, or read news reports about the inauguration ceremonies&#8221; yesterday versus 33% in 2005.\u00a0 Moreover, Americans are less hopeful based on what they read or heard about Obama&#8217;s second inauguration than they were after Bush&#8217;s.\u00a0 Just &#8220;37% of Americans said they are now more hopeful about the next four years after Monday&#8217;s presidential inauguration ceremonies,&#8221; compared to 43% in 2005.\u00a0 Some 27% said that yesterday&#8217;s inauguration made them &#8220;less hopeful,&#8221; two points worse than in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The change he brought turned out to be less hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thrill is gone, apparently. According to a Gallup poll released today, fewer Americans watched yesterday&#8217;s inaugural ceremony or news coverage of it than they did George W. Bush&#8217;s second inaugural in 2005.\u00a0 Only 38% said that they watched yesterday&#8217;s ceremony, down from 40% in 2005, and only 27% &#8220;watched, listened to, or read news [&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":[842,3974,24,4006],"class_list":["post-17000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-gallup","tag-inauguration","tag-obama","tag-pessimism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17000","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=17000"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17006,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17000\/revisions\/17006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}