{"id":544,"date":"2006-05-13T21:06:26","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T01:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/14\/can-we-start-calling-this-a-disapproval-rating-yet\/"},"modified":"2006-05-14T21:09:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T01:09:36","slug":"can-we-start-calling-this-a-disapproval-rating-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/13\/can-we-start-calling-this-a-disapproval-rating-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we start calling this a disapproval rating yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hist.umn.edu\/~ruggles\">Steve Ruggles<\/a> at University of Minnesota has prepared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hist.umn.edu\/~ruggles\/Approval.htm\">a lovely historical chart of Bush&#8217;s approval rating over time<\/a>, as reported by a variety of sources. There&#8217;s a pretty clear trend here. Cynical Chris wishes he could believe that this represents a rejection of the policies of the administration by the public, and not irritation at gas prices&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve captured a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/05\/516_snap_approval.jpg\" title=\"Snapshot\">snapshot<\/a> of the graph today, just in case.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Steve Ruggles at University of Minnesota has prepared a lovely historical chart of Bush&#8217;s approval rating over time, as reported by a variety of sources. There&#8217;s a pretty clear trend here. Cynical Chris wishes he could believe that this represents a rejection of the policies of the administration by the public, and not irritation at gas prices&#8230; (I&#8217;ve captured a&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/13\/can-we-start-calling-this-a-disapproval-rating-yet\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-8M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}