{"id":190682,"date":"2009-11-03T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/03\/southerners-a-majority-of-them-are-not-stupid\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T21:48:00","slug":"southerners-a-majority-of-them-are-not-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/03\/southerners-a-majority-of-them-are-not-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Southerners: A Majority of them are Not Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/president-obama\/cnn-poll-majority-of-southerners-says-obama-has-done-better-job-than-bush\/\">the Plum Line<\/a> look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/11\/03\/obama.poll\/index.html\">a CNN article on their CNN\/Opinion Research Corporation survey<\/a>, and tease out this bit of information:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Another factor that may be boosting Obama&#8217;s overall rating is the inevitable comparison with the man he replaced in the Oval Office. Fifty-seven percent say Obama has been a better president than George W. Bush; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">only a third say Bush&#8217;s track record was better<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8220;Compared to Obama, Bush does fairly well among southerners and rural voters. But even in those categories, a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">majority still says Obama has done a better job than Bush<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">,&#8221; says Holland.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the depressing side, however is the knowledge that <sup>1<\/sup>\/<sub>3<\/sub> of the country are either complete morons, completely insane, or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at the Plum Line look at a CNN article on their CNN\/Opinion Research Corporation survey, and tease out this bit of information: Another factor that may be boosting Obama&#8217;s overall rating is the inevitable comparison with the man he replaced in the Oval Office. Fifty-seven percent say Obama has been a better president &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,1091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}