{"id":4264,"date":"2010-07-27T19:35:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T23:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4264"},"modified":"2010-07-27T19:38:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T23:38:04","slug":"encouraging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/27\/encouraging\/","title":{"rendered":"encouraging&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/07\/27\/obama-economic-policies-win\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poll: Public favors Obama&rsquo;s economic policies over Bush&rsquo;s by wide margin<\/a><\/strong><br \/> <strong>ThinkProgress<\/strong><br \/>  By Alex Seitz-Wald<br \/>  June 27, 2010<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">As congressional Republicans double down on President Bush&rsquo;s failed economic policies, a new National Journal\/Pew Research poll finds that Americans believe President Obama&rsquo;s &ldquo;policies offer a better chance  at improving the economy over the policies of his predecessor.&rdquo;  Interestingly, more Democrats favor Obama&rsquo;s policies than Republicans  favor Bush&rsquo;s, while independents overwhelming side with Obama. Overall,  despite continued tough economic times, 46 percent of Americans say  Obama&rsquo;s policies will do more to improve the economy, compared to just 29 percent who say the same of Bush&rsquo;s:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"292\" height=\"311\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/poll.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>The poll also found that only 30 percent  of Americans support retaining all the Bush tax cuts, while a similar  portion believe they should all be allowed to expire. Twenty-seven  percent favor repealing the tax cuts for wealthy, while maintaining the  rest, as the Obama administration has proposed.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>I wouldn&#8217;t have predicted this outcome&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poll: Public favors Obama&rsquo;s economic policies over Bush&rsquo;s by wide margin ThinkProgress By Alex Seitz-Wald June 27, 2010 As congressional Republicans double down on President Bush&rsquo;s failed economic policies, a new National Journal\/Pew Research poll finds that Americans believe President Obama&rsquo;s &ldquo;policies offer a better chance at improving the economy over the policies of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}