{"id":4237,"date":"2008-02-08T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2017-11-23T13:14:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T19:14:32","slug":"any-civilization-player-knows-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/any-civilization-player-knows-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Civilization Player Knows Differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP overstates its poll results when it says <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080208\/ap_on_go_ot\/bush_congress_ap_poll\" target=\"_blank\">Bush, Congress hit bottom in AP poll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s almost as if people can barely stand the thought of President Bush and Congress anymore. Bush reached his lowest approval rating in The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on Friday as only 30 percent said they like the job he is doing, including an all-time low in his support by Republicans. Congress&#8217; approval fell to just 22 percent, equaling its poorest grade in the survey. Both marks dropped by 4 percentage points since early January.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, I would expect the absolute bottom to be armed insurrection or at least some sort of lynching.  Disgust with one&#8217;s government and party, pithy remarks made amongst the like minded, and\/or staying home on election day after filing one&#8217;s taxes in a timely fashion but answering negatively to a pollster doesn&#8217;t strike me as the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives2\/015078.php\" target=\"_blank\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP overstates its poll results when it says Bush, Congress hit bottom in AP poll: It&#8217;s almost as if people can barely stand the thought of President Bush and Congress anymore. Bush reached his lowest approval rating in The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on Friday as only 30 percent said they like the job he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17678,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions\/17678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}