{"id":4359,"date":"2010-02-08T17:17:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2011-02-17T14:58:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T19:58:35","slug":"obama-losing-independents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/02\/08\/obama-losing-independents\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama losing independents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4360\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/Obama-downcast-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Obama downcast\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The latest <a title=\"Marist Poll\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=washingtonstory&amp;sid=a6580.gnX.1c\" target=\"_blank\">Marist Poll <\/a>shows 57 percent of independent voters don&#8217;t approve of President Obama&#8217;s job performance &#8212; up from 44 pecent in early December.\u00a0 Political Science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em>Only in America?<\/em> <em>American Politics in Comparative Perspective,<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0says it&#8217;s ironic a great campaigner like Oama is losing his communications touch.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;His health care proposals scare people, although very moderate compared with many options, and he\u2019s not getting credit for stopping the disintegration of the economy he inherited.\u00a0 Part of the new strategy for the administration has to be correcting this.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2450, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Marist Poll shows 57 percent of independent voters don&#8217;t approve of President Obama&#8217;s job performance &#8212; up from 44 pecent in early December.\u00a0 Political Science Professor Graham Wilson, author of &#8220;Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective,&#8221;\u00a0says it&#8217;s ironic a great campaigner like Oama is losing his communications touch. &#8220;His health care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2360,2361],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8139,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions\/8139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}