{"id":15804,"date":"2011-07-26T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T19:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15804"},"modified":"2011-07-26T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T19:07:31","slug":"andrew-malcolm-new-polls-confirm-obamas-democratic-base-crumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15804","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Malcolm: New polls confirm Obama&#8217;s Democratic base crumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political commentary from Andrew Malcolm<br \/>\nJuly 26, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;More than a third of Americans now believe that President Obama\u2019s policies are hurting the economy, and confidence in his ability to create jobs is sharply eroding among\u00a0 his base,&#8221; <a title=\"obama support eroding among his Democratic base\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/more-americans-unhappy-with-obama-on-economy-jobs\/2011\/07\/25\/gIQABJ9sZI_story.html?wpisrc=al_politics\" target=\"_blank\">the Post reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Strong support among liberal Democrats for Obama&#8217;s jobs record has plummeted 22 points from 53% down below a third. African Americans who believe the president&#8217;s measures helped the economy have plunged from 77% to barely half.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s overall job approval on the economy has slid below 40% for the first time, with 57% disapproving. And strong disapprovers outnumber approvers by better than two-to-one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2011\/07\/obama-poll-jobs-democratic-base-crumbling.html\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;New polls confirm Obama&#8217;s Democratic base crumbles&#8221; by Andrew Malcolm<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political commentary from Andrew Malcolm July 26, 2011 &#8220;More than a third of Americans now believe that President Obama\u2019s policies are hurting the economy, and confidence in his ability to create jobs is sharply eroding among\u00a0 his base,&#8221; the Post &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-46U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15805,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804\/revisions\/15805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}