{"id":6760,"date":"2017-07-19T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T18:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/07\/19\/can-trump-improve-his-approval-rating\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:12:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:12:48","slug":"can-trump-improve-his-approval-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/can-trump-improve-his-approval-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Trump improve his approval rating?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Politics and International Affairs Professor Danielle Vinson was quoted in a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/updates\/can-trump-improve-record-low-approval-rating\/\">PBS NewsHour<\/a><\/strong> article that looks at President Trump&#8217;s first months in office, which includes a record low approval rating. While \u201cconventional wisdom\u201d suggests that Democrats could make big gains in the 2018 midterm election, Vinson is not so sure.\u00a0 \u201cBut will that hold now,\u201d she said, \u201cor are we in this polarized era where it doesn\u2019t matter what people think of the president, Republicans will continue to vote for Republicans, and Democrats will continue to vote for Democrats?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Politics and International Affairs Professor Danielle Vinson was quoted in a PBS NewsHour article that looks at President Trump&#8217;s first months in office, which includes a record low approval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,69,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-on-the-record","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}