{"id":17758,"date":"2013-04-23T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17758"},"modified":"2013-04-23T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:22:26","slug":"washington-post-poll-bush-approval-now-equals-obamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17758\/washington-post-poll-bush-approval-now-equals-obamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Poll:  Bush Approval Now Equals Obama&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this will come as unwelcome news in the Obama White House.\u00a0 Their &#8220;Blame Bush&#8221; raison detre never held merit intellectually.\u00a0 Even if it did, however, someone willing to blame Bush for Obama&#8217;s failures at this point would by logic have to blame Clinton for Bush&#8217;s failures.\u00a0 Now, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2013\/04\/23\/george-w-bushs-approval-rating-just-hit-a-7-year-high-heres-how\/?wpisrc=nl_politics\" target=\"_blank\">new poll<\/a> from <em>The Washington Post<\/em> and ABC News suggests that it&#8217;s no longer a workable political strategy regardless of logic.\u00a0 Specifically, almost as many people now approve of Bush&#8217;s performance as disapprove, and he now equals Obama:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new poll found 47 percent saying they approve and 50 percent saying  they disapprove. Among registered voters, his approval rating today is  equal to President Obama\u2019s, at 47\u00a0percent, according to the latest  Post-ABC surveys.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So &#8220;Blame Bush&#8221; is running on fumes, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/cols\/charen041913.php3#.UXamAUrvjyA\" target=\"_blank\">exploiting the Newtown victims&#8217; parents<\/a> as political props failed him.\u00a0 To which ploy will Obama stoop next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this will come as unwelcome news in the Obama White House.\u00a0 Their &#8220;Blame Bush&#8221; raison detre never held merit intellectually.\u00a0 Even if it did, however, someone willing to blame Bush for Obama&#8217;s failures at this point would by logic have to blame Clinton for Bush&#8217;s failures.\u00a0 Now, a new poll from The Washington Post [&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":[2839,67,24,991],"class_list":["post-17758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-approval","tag-bush","tag-obama","tag-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758","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=17758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17763,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758\/revisions\/17763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}