{"id":40132,"date":"2013-11-25T05:46:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T11:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40132"},"modified":"2013-11-25T05:47:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T11:47:03","slug":"40132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40132","title":{"rendered":"Poll Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto&#8217;s crack-addict mayor\u00a0<del>Chris Farley<\/del> Rob Ford is many things.<\/p>\n<p>Among them; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/11\/22\/rob-ford-obama-congress-toronto_n_4326169.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003\">more popular than Obama<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a new Forum Research survey of 1,049 Toronto voters, Ford, who admitted to using crack in a &#8220;drunken stupor&#8221; on Nov. 5, has an approval rating of 42 percent. The Telegraph notes that though this is &#8220;a two point drop from two weeks ago, it is up from the 39 [percent] approval rating he had before he admitted smoking crack cocaine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, President Barack Obama&#8217;s approval rating has fallen to an all-time low this week. According to a CBS poll released Wednesday, only 37 percent of Americans approve of the job the president&#8217;s doing in the White House &#8212; a nine-point drop since October.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, Ford benefits by being mayor of a city full of Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I can easily see President Obama needing to triangulate his way out of this. \u00a0Perhaps with the help of Senator Booker&#8217;s pal &#8220;T-Bone&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto&#8217;s crack-addict mayor\u00a0Chris Farley Rob Ford is many things. Among them; &#8220;more popular than Obama&#8220;: According to a new Forum Research survey of 1,049 Toronto voters, Ford, who admitted to using crack in a &#8220;drunken stupor&#8221; on Nov. 5, has an approval rating of 42 percent. The Telegraph notes that though this is &#8220;a two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40135,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40132\/revisions\/40135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}