{"id":168,"date":"2013-05-25T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/25\/the-economy-is-saving-potuss-standing"},"modified":"2013-05-25T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T15:49:00","slug":"the-economy-is-saving-potuss-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"The economy is saving POTUS\u2019s standing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The economy is shoring up President Obama\u2019s poll numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/21\/is-the-economy-saving-obamas-approval-ratings\/\" href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/21\/is-the-economy-saving-obamas-approval-ratings\/\">http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/21\/is-the-economy-saving-obamas-approval-ratings\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nate Silver, the math whiz whose Five Thirty-Eight blog, published by the New York Times, called the 2012 election almost exactly, thinks the economy might be the president\u2019s ace in the face of the other matters that seem to be dragging his poll numbers down.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m trying to process that one. I\u2019ve noted already that the economy is turning into a net plus for the president. It boggles my mind to think that the one issue Republicans thought in 2012 would sink Obama is now turning out to be keeping him afloat.<\/p>\n<p>Joblessness is down. Hiring is up. The deficit is shrinking.<\/p>\n<p>As with all things political, the president\u2019s foes aren\u2019t giving him any credit for that trend \u2013 although they\u2019d be pulling the trigger immediately if the numbers were going the other way.<\/p>\n<p>Politics ain\u2019t for the faint-hearted \u2026 you know?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economy is shoring up President Obama\u2019s poll numbers. Who knew? http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/21\/is-the-economy-saving-obamas-approval-ratings\/ Nate Silver, the math whiz whose Five Thirty-Eight blog, published by the New York Times, called the 2012 election almost exactly, thinks the economy might be the president\u2019s ace in the face of the other matters that seem to be dragging his poll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The economy is saving POTUS\u2019s standing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}