{"id":22381,"date":"2015-02-11T12:48:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22381"},"modified":"2015-02-11T12:48:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:48:08","slug":"gallup-obama-on-track-to-be-most-polarizing-president-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22381\/gallup-obama-on-track-to-be-most-polarizing-president-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallup: Obama on Track to be Most Polarizing President Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama is on pace to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/181490\/obama-approval-ratings-historically-polarized.aspx \" target=\"_blank\">the most polarized approval ratings in history<\/a>, according to a new Gallup poll.<\/p>\n<p>Polarized approval ratings mean the gap between those in a president\u2019s party that approve of him compared to those in the opposition party that don\u2019t. \u201cSo far in his presidency, there has been an average party gap of 70 points in Obama\u2019s approval ratings, which, if it continues, would be easily the highest for a president to date,\u201d says the Gallup summary.<\/p>\n<p>For context, former President George W. Bush \u201cis second with a 61-point gap throughout his presidency, followed by Clinton (56) and Reagan (52). The other presidents [going back to Eisenhower] had party gaps of no more than 41 points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Tim explained in his column last week, it\u2019s no surprise that people <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/2456-by-the-numbers-obamas-economic-jobs-and-deficit-performance-is-the-worst-on-record\" target=\"_blank\">concerned about the country\u2019s fiscal future<\/a> disapprove of Obama\u2019s job performance. Economic growth is in a nine-year rut, the percentage of the U.S. population with jobs is as low as when Jimmy Carter was in office, and the median income has actually declined since Obama\u2019s economic \u201crecovery\u201d was announced.<\/p>\n<p>The real question after reading through the Gallup results isn\u2019t, What\u2019s the matter with Republicans? It\u2019s, How in the world can Democrats see the current president as worthy of such lofty praise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama is on pace to have the most polarized approval ratings in history, according to a new Gallup poll. Polarized approval ratings mean the gap between those in a president\u2019s party that approve of him compared to those in the opposition party that don\u2019t. \u201cSo far in his presidency, there has been an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,19,842,979,27,991],"class_list":["post-22381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-economy","tag-gallup","tag-job-approval","tag-jobs","tag-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22381","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22381"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22386,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22381\/revisions\/22386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}