{"id":12672,"date":"2014-01-20T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T12:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12672"},"modified":"2014-01-20T12:45:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T12:45:03","slug":"obama-blames-his-failing-popularity-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12672","title":{"rendered":"Obama blames his failing popularity on race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/racecard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12673\" alt=\"racecard\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/racecard-300x195.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/racecard-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/racecard.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>President Barack Obama said that racial tensions may have softened his popularity among white voters within the last two years, according to a story posted on the New Yorker magazine\u2019s website today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt that there\u2019s some folks who just really dislike me because they don\u2019t like the idea of a black president,\u201d Obama said in the article by David Remnick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Obama said this in his most direct comment on how race has affected his political standing since he\u2019s been in office. His wife Michelle has spoken <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hq5lb5e5yVY\">openly <\/a>about race before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Obama\u2019s second term has been marked by controversies including a partial government shutdown in October, revelations that the National Security Agency has gathered personal mobile phone data and the troubled rollout of health-insurance expansion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Obama\u2019s approval rating among all voters is 39 percent and his disapproval rating is 53 percent, according to a Gallup Poll conducted Jan. 14-16. In the 2012 presidential election, Republican candidate Mitt Romney won 59 percent of the white vote, compared with Obama\u2019s 39 percent, according to exit polling by a consortium of major news outlets. Obama won 43 percent of the white vote in 2008 against 55 percent for opponent John McCain, a Republican senator from Arizona.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama said that racial tensions may have softened his popularity among white voters within the last two years, according to a story posted on the New Yorker magazine\u2019s website today. \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt that there\u2019s some folks who just really dislike me because they don\u2019t like the idea of a black president,\u201d Obama &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12672\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama blames his failing popularity on race&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2113,593,250,8069,157],"class_list":["post-12672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-african-american","tag-barack-obama","tag-black","tag-racial-tensions","tag-racism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/racecard.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12674,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672\/revisions\/12674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}