{"id":9880,"date":"2011-05-27T14:54:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T18:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9880"},"modified":"2011-05-27T14:57:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T18:57:07","slug":"two-new-polls-should-worry-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9880\/two-new-polls-should-worry-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New Polls Should Worry Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current commentary on the 2012 presidential race, including <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9819\/dont-sell-pawlenty-short\/\" target=\"_blank\">here at CFIF<\/a>, centers primarily on the strength of the germinating Republican field.\u00a0 The more Barack Obama weakens between now and November 2012, however, the easier the task for whoever emerges from the GOP race.\u00a0 On that note, two new polls should have Team Obama sweating.\u00a0 In the first, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections\/election_2012\/election_2012_presidential_election\/election_2012_generic_presidential_ballot\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmussen reports<\/a> that Obama only leads &#8220;Generic Republican&#8221; by one point this week.\u00a0 With most discussion of that generic Republican field focusing on its supposed weakness, that is significant.\u00a0 In the second, <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/01\/12\/cnn-poll-americans-split-on-success-of-obama-presidency\/\">CNN reports<\/a> that 48% of respondents state Obama&#8217;s presidency has been a failure to date, while only 47% rate it successful.\u00a0 The fact that CNN polled all adults, rather than registered voters or likely voters, is all the more reason for him to worry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current commentary on the 2012 presidential race, including here at CFIF, centers primarily on the strength of the germinating Republican field.\u00a0 The more Barack Obama weakens between now and November 2012, however, the easier the task for whoever emerges from the GOP race.\u00a0 On that note, two new polls should have Team Obama sweating.\u00a0 In [&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":[2033,2034,914,143,2194,24,14,85,334],"class_list":["post-9880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-2012-election","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-cnn","tag-obama","tag-president-obama","tag-rasmussen","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880","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=9880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9883,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions\/9883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}