{"id":3153,"date":"2013-03-06T12:53:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2013-03-06T12:53:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T17:53:41","slug":"obama-job-approval-takes-brief-hit-from-budget-sequester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/03\/obama-job-approval-takes-brief-hit-from-budget-sequester\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Job Approval Takes Brief Hit From Budget Sequester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/160850\/obama-job-approval-takes-brief-hit-budget-sequester.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/o-ydg8ftqeyygukh1lbsuq.gif\" width=\"360\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obama averaged 51% job approval in Gallup Daily tracking from Feb. 26-28 &#8212; Gallups three-day average immediately prior to the sequester. The budget sequester went into effect as scheduled on March 1 after Obama and Republican leaders met but did not reach an agreement to delay it. Then, in the first two days of the sequester, March 1-2, Obamas approval ratings were quite a bit lower, bringing his three-day averages for Feb. 28-March 2 and March 1-3 down to 46%.<\/p>\n<p>However, his March 3 and March 4 approval ratings were higher, and Gallups latest three-day average approval rating &#8212; based on March 2-4 polling &#8212; is 49%, nearly back to Obamas previous level. If the current trend continues, Obama would move back to 50% or above in Wednesdays daily update.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/160850\/obama-job-approval-takes-brief-hit-budget-sequester.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Job Approval Takes Brief Hit From Budget Sequester<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama averaged 51% job approval in Gallup Daily tracking from Feb. 26-28 &#8212; Gallups three-day average immediately prior to the sequester. The budget sequester went into effect as scheduled on March 1 after Obama and Republican leaders met but did not reach an agreement to delay it. Then, in the first two days of the&#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":[1560,42,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153"}],"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=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}