{"id":971,"date":"2009-04-16T08:31:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T14:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2009-04-16T08:31:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T14:31:44","slug":"the-presidential-report-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/16\/the-presidential-report-card\/politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Presidential Report Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama hasn&#8217;t been in office for quite 100 days, but that doesn&#8217;t stop us from keeping track of how we think he&#8217;s doing in his new job. A friend passed a link on to me this morning for a poll being conducted by MSNBC.com, asking people to grade the President&#8217;s performance. Very interesting results so far&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_972\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29493093\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-972\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davintosh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/obama_report_card.png?resize=450%2C358\" alt=\"(click on the image to go to the poll)\" title=\"obama_report_card\" width=\"450\" height=\"358\" class=\"size-full wp-image-972\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(click on the image to go to the poll)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Almost half of the respondents give him an &#8216;F&#8217;, about half that give him an &#8216;A&#8217;, and the rest spread between &#8216;B&#8217;, &#8216;C&#8217; &amp; &#8216;D&#8217;; not much middle ground, and a faltering fan base. Even more curious is the number of people hitting this poll right now; between the time I voted (guess what score he got from me) &amp; took that screenshot and now &mdash; about ten minutes &mdash; the number of respondents has shot up by over 1,000. We&#8217;ll be keeping an eye on that as the day goes on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama hasn&#8217;t been in office for quite 100 days, but that doesn&#8217;t stop us from keeping track of how we think he&#8217;s doing in his new job. A friend passed a link on to me this morning for a poll being conducted by MSNBC.com, asking people to grade the President&#8217;s performance. Very interesting results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}