{"id":8867,"date":"2013-05-21T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8867"},"modified":"2013-05-21T11:17:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:17:24","slug":"why-obamas-ratings-arent-tanking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/why-obamas-ratings-arent-tanking\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Obama\u2019s Ratings Aren\u2019t Tanking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/052113_1514_WhyObamasRa1.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"452\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People across the political spectrum can find something to dislike in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/search?q=obama+scandal&amp;FORM=HDRSC6\">storm of scandals<\/a> that has plagued Obama over the past week or so. Yet Obama&#8217;s approval ratings have remained stable. Why? Nate Silver had a theory:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The economy is doing better than it has ever done before during Obama&#8217;s tenure as President.<\/li>\n<li>Over the past five years Obama&#8217;s approval rating has closely correlated with the state of the economy.<\/li>\n<li>Thus while the scandals are bringing his approval rating down by a few points, that decline is being counteracted by positivity for Obama due to the state of the economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See how Obama&#8217;s ratings correlate with the state of the economy, and how the killing of Osama bin Laden can throw off the analysis a little over <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/21\/is-the-economy-saving-obamas-approval-ratings\/?smid=tw-fivethirtyeight&amp;seid=auto\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/21\/is-the-economy-saving-obamas-approval-ratings\/?smid=tw-fivethirtyeight&amp;seid=auto\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2013\/05\/21\/post_crisis_era_strong_obama_approval_despite_scandal_coverage.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People across the political spectrum can find something to dislike in the storm of scandals that has plagued Obama over the past week or so. Yet Obama&#8217;s approval ratings have remained stable. Why? Nate Silver had a theory: The economy is doing better than it has ever done before during Obama&#8217;s tenure as President. Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/052113_1514_WhyObamasRa1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8869,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions\/8869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}