{"id":3059,"date":"2013-02-05T06:27:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T11:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2013-02-05T06:27:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T11:27:51","slug":"hispanics-approval-of-obama-70-up-12-pts-since-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/02\/hispanics-approval-of-obama-70-up-12-pts-since-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanics Approval of Obama 70%, Up 12 Pts. Since August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January, 70% of Hispanics approved of the job President Barack Obama was doing, down slightly from 75% in December. However, the January measure still represents an increase of 12 percentage points since last August, just prior to the Democratic National Convention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/160286\/hispanics-approval-obama-pts-august.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/s5d0wj2mweczuxqpcxom3w.gif\" width=\"411\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The results are based on Gallup Daily tracking throughout January. During that time, Gallup polled 1,288 Hispanics, with roughly one-third of those interviews conducted in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of the increase in Obamas approval rating among Hispanics suggests the presidential election campaign may have been a significant factor in Hispanics renewed enthusiasm for him, starting with the Democratic National Convention in early September through the election and the initial post-election phase. According to the National Exit Poll, Hispanics voted for Obama over Mitt Romney by 71% to 27%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/160286\/hispanics-approval-obama-pts-august.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Hispanics Approval of Obama 70%, Up 12 Pts. Since August<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, 70% of Hispanics approved of the job President Barack Obama was doing, down slightly from 75% in December. However, the January measure still represents an increase of 12 percentage points since last August, just prior to the Democratic National Convention. &nbsp; The results are based on Gallup Daily tracking throughout January. During that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,20],"tags":[1634,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}