{"id":2086,"date":"2006-09-21T12:45:52","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T16:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/approval_at_the\/"},"modified":"2006-09-21T12:45:52","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T16:45:52","slug":"approval_at_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/09\/approval_at_the\/","title":{"rendered":"Approval At The Pump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2006-09-20-bush-gas-prices_x.htm\">USA Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When it comes to President Bush&#8217;s approval rating &#8212; the number that measures his political health &#8212; one factor seems more powerful than any Oval Office address or legislative initiative.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the price of a gallon of gas.<br \/>\nStatisticians who have compared changes in gas prices and Bush&#8217;s ratings through his presidency have found a steady relationship: As gas prices rise, his ratings fall. As gas prices fall, his ratings rise.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nA statistical analysis by Doug Henwood, editor of the liberal newsletter Left Business Observer, found that an &#8220;uncanny&#8221; 78% of the movement in Bush&#8217;s ratings could be correlated with changes in gas prices. Based on trends in crude oil prices, Henwood predicted last Thursday that it &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t be surprising to see his approval numbers rise into the mid-40s.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn a USA TODAY\/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, Bush&#8217;s rating rose to 44%, his highest in a year. Average gas prices, which peaked at more than $3 a gallon in August, had dropped under $2.50, the lowest since March.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting how &#8220;supply and demand&#8221; is working.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/2006\/09\/20\/stahler0920.gif\" style=\"width: 450px; height: 347px;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/09\/approval_at_the\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Approval At The Pump\"><p>USA Today: When it comes to President Bush&#8217;s approval rating &#8212; the number that measures his political health &#8212; one factor seems more powerful than any Oval Office address or legislative initiative. It&#8217;s the price of a gallon of gas. Statisticians who have compared changes in gas prices and Bush&#8217;s ratings through his presidency have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}