{"id":19593,"date":"2017-02-04T05:04:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T05:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19593"},"modified":"2017-02-04T05:04:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T05:04:12","slug":"potus-sets-dubious-polling-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19593","title":{"rendered":"POTUS sets dubious polling record"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/thBIGCX2WM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17804\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/thBIGCX2WM-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald &#8220;Smart Person&#8221; Trump has set a record.<\/p>\n<p>He won&#8217;t boast about it, though.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new CNN\/ORC public opinion poll, the president&#8217;s disapproval rating &#8212; at 53 percent &#8212; is an all-time record for someone so new in the job.<\/p>\n<p>I mention this only because Trump has made such a big, noisy and overly inflated point about his poll numbers while he campaigned for the Republican Party nomination and then for election to the presidency.<\/p>\n<p><em>He<\/em> made the polls an issue. <em>He<\/em> bragged about &#8217;em. <em>He<\/em> ridiculed his foes for their dismal poll numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/03\/politics\/donald-trump-approval-rating\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/03\/politics\/donald-trump-approval-rating\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But wouldn&#8217;t you know it? Just when the polls sag and public opinion turns against him, he is quite likely to say something about them being &#8220;rigged&#8221; or questioning the integrity of the polling organization that compiled the results.<\/p>\n<p>Get used to it, Mr. President. This, too, is part of your new job.<\/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>Donald &#8220;Smart Person&#8221; Trump has set a record. He won&#8217;t boast about it, though. According to a new CNN\/ORC public opinion poll, the president&#8217;s disapproval rating &#8212; at 53 percent &#8212; is an all-time record for someone so new in the job. I mention this only because Trump has made such a big, noisy and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19593\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POTUS sets dubious polling record<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[1043,1045,1424,3773],"class_list":["post-19593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-cnn","tag-cnnorc","tag-donald-trump","tag-public-opinion-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19593","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=19593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19594,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19593\/revisions\/19594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}