{"id":1197,"date":"2008-11-12T08:17:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T07:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2008-11-12T08:17:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T07:17:41","slug":"24-and-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1197","title":{"rendered":"24% and 75%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, George Bush finally broke all records with the most unfavourable ratings ever at 24% &#8211; lower than either Truman or Nixon.<br \/>\nAt the same time, Barack Obama recorded the most favourable ratings ever for an incoming president at 75%.<br \/>\nOf course, these two phenomena are not unrelated. No doubt, Obama&#8217;s ratings will fall when he enters the White House and starts to make the tough decisions. Probably, in a few years, there will be revisionist biographies of Bush claiming that his presidency was not quite so bad as his final ratings suggested.<br \/>\nBut, in the meanwhile, never at any time in my lifetime has there been such a contrast between the standing of an outgoing and an incoming US president. Truly these are historic times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, George Bush finally broke all records with the most unfavourable ratings ever at 24% &#8211; lower than either Truman or Nixon. At the same time, Barack Obama recorded the most favourable ratings ever for an incoming president at 75%. Of course, these two phenomena are not unrelated. No doubt, Obama&#8217;s ratings will fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}