{"id":6350,"date":"2010-07-13T11:57:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T15:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2011-01-20T12:10:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T17:10:50","slug":"obama-hits-new-low-in-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/07\/13\/obama-hits-new-low-in-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama hits new low in polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6356\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/07\/Obama-dejected1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Obama dejected\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/>With all eyes toward November&#8217;s mid-term elections, a new Washington Post\/ABC <a title=\"poll\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/12\/AR2010071205453.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">poll<\/a> shows only 43 percent of Americans approving the job President Obama is doing on the economy, a new low for him.\u00a0 A new CBS <a title=\"poll\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20010382-503544.html\" target=\"_blank\">poll<\/a> has that number at 40 percent, with 54 percent disapproving.\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? American Politics in Comparative Perspective<\/em>,&#8221; says studies show voters&#8217; memories are short so if the economy were to recover over the next few months there would still be hope for the Democrats in the fall.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut the Democrats are very vulnerable because Obama, supposedly a great communicator, has failed to tell voters a story that they can understand of why the state of the economy isn\u2019t his fault and why the steps he\u2019s taken to address it make sense. <\/em><em>So at this point, the Democrats\u2019 future is out of their control.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all eyes toward November&#8217;s mid-term elections, a new Washington Post\/ABC poll shows only 43 percent of Americans approving the job President Obama is doing on the economy, a new low for him.\u00a0 A new CBS poll has that number at 40 percent, with 54 percent disapproving.\u00a0 Political science Professor Graham Wilson, author of &#8220;Only [&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":[3354,101,3352,75,3353],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350"}],"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=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7663,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions\/7663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}