{"id":4919,"date":"2009-09-07T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2010-01-13T07:27:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T13:27:48","slug":"it-might-be-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/07\/it-might-be-about-race\/","title":{"rendered":"It Might Be About Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/nation\/story\/7589C41911AC62E5862576290014CE13?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u2019s approval rating drops among whites<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul><i>After a summer of health care battles and sliding approval ratings for President Barack Obama, the White House is facing a troubling new trend: The voters losing faith in the president are the ones he had worked hardest to attract.<\/p>\n<p>New surveys show steep declines in Obama&#8217;s approval ratings among whites, including Democrats and independents, who were crucial elements of the diverse coalition that helped elect the country\u2019s first black president.<\/i><\/ul>\n<p>The article poses its own push-poll style point, that whites are abandoning Obama&#8211;because of race?  However, it would be just as sound to ask, &#8220;Are blacks sticking with Obama because he&#8217;s black?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama\u2019s approval rating drops among whites: After a summer of health care battles and sliding approval ratings for President Barack Obama, the White House is facing a troubling new trend: The voters losing faith in the president are the ones he had worked hardest to attract. New surveys show steep declines in Obama&#8217;s approval ratings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicians","category-politics","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919","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=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5157,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions\/5157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}