{"id":68,"date":"2004-04-12T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2004-04-12T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2004-04-12T16:37:10","slug":"the-exit-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"The Exit Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Polls are polls. They change. Particularly when manipulated by the actions of a President from his bully pulpit.<\/p>\n

None the less, trends are trends. And Newsweek’s<\/i> just released numbers<\/a> from Apr. 8 – 9, would show an alarming one for the “President”. These numbers and trends are also echoed by virtually every other recently released poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If polls are good enough to make Rush cream in his pants<\/a>, they are good enough for me too.<\/p>\n

Bush’s handling of Iraq<\/span>
\nAPPROVE: %44 DISAPPROVE: %51
\n(One year ago)
\nAPPROVE: %69 DISAPPROVE %26<\/p>\n

Bush’s handling of terrorism and homeland security<\/span>
\nAPPROVE %59 (down from %70 earlier this year)<\/p>\n

Bush Admin underestimated threat of terror attacks on U.S. soil<\/span>
\nAGREE: %60<\/p>\n

Has Bush Admin INCREASED or DECREASED risk of large number of people being killed or injured in future terrorist attacks in the United States<\/span>
\nINCREASED: %42 DECREASED: %29
\n(End of last year)
\nINCREASED: %28 DECREASED: %30<\/p>\n

Concerned that Iraq will become another Vietnam<\/span>
\nVERY\/SOMEWHAT CONCERNED: %64
\nNOT TOO\/NOT AT ALL: %34<\/p>\n

Satisfied or Dissatisfied with the way things are going in this country<\/span>
\nSATISFIED: %36 DISSATISFIED: %59<\/p>\n

Bush’s handling of the economy<\/span>
\nAPPROVE: %41 DISAPPROVE: %55<\/p>\n

Bush vs Kerry<\/span>
\nKERRY: %50 BUSH: %43<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Polls are polls. They change. Particularly when manipulated by the actions of a President from his bully pulpit. None the less, trends are trends. And Newsweek’s just released numbers from Apr. 8 – 9, would show an alarming one for the “President”. These numbers and trends are also echoed by virtually every other recently released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}