In which I extract some hope from the news of the day
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I may be following wandering fires, but I thought I picked up a couple of glimmers of hope regarding electoral trends in today's Times. First up is a factoid accompanying Charles Blow's column. Blow's focus is on GOP voters' attitudes toward media and race. But what caught my eye in the sidebar was the percentage of the electorate as a whole who find the president trustworthy: 61%. That's far ahead of Obama's job approval rating, which is I think* 46-47% . In an era of all-time-low trust in government, 61% seems stratospheric. If Americans even value trust in elected officials any more, it's got to help him -- especially as Gingrich and Romney (and their hands-off Super Pac minions) do their vicious uninhibited best to highlight one another's documented lack of integrity and throw in a few gratuitous smears to boot.
In which I extract some hope from the news of the day
In which I extract some hope from the news of…
In which I extract some hope from the news of the day
I may be following wandering fires, but I thought I picked up a couple of glimmers of hope regarding electoral trends in today's Times. First up is a factoid accompanying Charles Blow's column. Blow's focus is on GOP voters' attitudes toward media and race. But what caught my eye in the sidebar was the percentage of the electorate as a whole who find the president trustworthy: 61%. That's far ahead of Obama's job approval rating, which is I think* 46-47% . In an era of all-time-low trust in government, 61% seems stratospheric. If Americans even value trust in elected officials any more, it's got to help him -- especially as Gingrich and Romney (and their hands-off Super Pac minions) do their vicious uninhibited best to highlight one another's documented lack of integrity and throw in a few gratuitous smears to boot.