{"id":62,"date":"2003-11-05T18:34:34","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T18:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2003-11-05T18:34:34","modified_gmt":"2003-11-05T18:34:34","slug":"do-these-guys-know-what-they-are-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Do these guys know what they are talking about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/989226.asp\">AP article<\/a> claiming that a survey shows 44% of people asked will vote against President Bush in 2004 compared with 38% who say they will vote for him.<\/p>\n<p>That sounds bad, but the story looks more like biased reporting. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/today\/1102-Bushpollnu-207195.html\">recent poll<\/a> shows President Bush&#8217;s approval rating at 53%. Historically, only JFK and George H.W. Bush&#8217;s ratings were above 50% at this point in their presidency. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC published an AP article claiming that a survey shows 44% of people asked will vote against President Bush in 2004 compared with 38% who say they will vote for him. That sounds bad, but the story looks more like biased reporting. A recent poll shows President Bush&#8217;s approval rating at 53%. Historically, only JFK &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=62\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do these guys know what they are talking about?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}