{"id":245,"date":"2006-04-19T09:08:04","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T13:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=245"},"modified":"2006-04-19T09:21:03","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T13:21:03","slug":"what-do-these-states-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"What do these states have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do these states have in common?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>North Dakota<\/li>\n<li>Georgia<\/li>\n<li>Arizona<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee<\/li>\n<li>Montana<\/li>\n<li>South Dakota<\/li>\n<li>Indiana<\/li>\n<li>South Carolina<\/li>\n<li>West Virginia<\/li>\n<li>North Carolina<\/li>\n<li>Kentucky<\/li>\n<li>Arkansas<\/li>\n<li>Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Florida<\/li>\n<li>Missouri<\/li>\n<li>Colorado<\/li>\n<li>New Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Iowa<\/li>\n<li>Ohio<\/li>\n<li>Nevada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Give up?<\/p>\n<p>All of these states went to Bush in the last election.  The all also have current net approval ratings (postive% &#8211; negative%) for Bush of -10% or less.  The figures range from -10% in North Dakota, to -31% in Nevada.  There are six more states that voted for Bush where the net approval is negative but less than 10%.  There are only four states &#8212;  the intellectual and population centers of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nebraska &#8212; where Bush receives a positive net approval. These results are as of April in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveyusa.com\/50State2006\/06041850StatePOTUSNet.html\">monthly nationwide survey by SurveyUSA<\/a>.  (Did you know that if the District of Columbus were made a state, Wyoming would rank 51st in population?)<\/p>\n<p>All I can say to the citizens of the twenty states listed above is &#8220;Told you so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wait, there&#8217;s one more thing I can say:<\/p>\n<p>Thanks a bunch, a**holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do these states have in common? North Dakota Georgia Arizona Tennessee Montana South Dakota Indiana South Carolina West Virginia North Carolina Kentucky Arkansas Virginia Florida Missouri Colorado New Mexico Iowa Ohio Nevada Give up? All of these states went to Bush in the last election. The all also have current net approval ratings (postive% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}