{"id":27130,"date":"2017-12-29T18:01:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T18:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27130"},"modified":"2017-12-29T18:01:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T18:01:04","slug":"there-he-goes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27130","title":{"rendered":"There he goes again"},"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\/2017\/12\/BBHtK5H.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27131\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBHtK5H-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBHtK5H-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBHtK5H.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is at it once again.<\/p>\n<p>The president says his poll numbers compare favorably to Barack Obama&#8217;s poll numbers at the end of his first year in office.<\/p>\n<p>Umm. No. They don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Trump appears to be citing a Rasmussen poll that puts his approval rating a 46 percent. He said in a tweet that Obama&#8217;s poll standing in late December 2009 stood at 47 percent. Rasmussen is a generally Republican-friendly polling organization.<\/p>\n<p>One qualifier is in order. The Obama poll numbers factored in all the surveys taken. They stood at 47 percent, just as Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>But the president&#8217;s current poll average &#8212; compiled by RealClearPolitics &#8212; stands at 39.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>As if it really matters, which it doesn&#8217;t. As a critic of this blog reminded me, Trump isn&#8217;t running for re-election for another three years. That assumes, of course, that (a) he&#8217;s still in office or (b) wants to run for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>If only the president would stop obsessing about polls.<\/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 Trump is at it once again. The president says his poll numbers compare favorably to Barack Obama&#8217;s poll numbers at the end of his first year in office. Umm. No. They don&#8217;t. Trump appears to be citing a Rasmussen poll that puts his approval rating a 46 percent. He said in a tweet that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There he goes again<\/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],"tags":[540,1424,3774,7495],"class_list":["post-27130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-public-opinion-surveys","tag-rcp-poll-average"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130","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=27130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27132,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130\/revisions\/27132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}