{"id":6558,"date":"2011-05-12T14:29:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T18:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6558"},"modified":"2011-05-12T13:29:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T17:29:50","slug":"poll-pres-obama-approval-hits-60-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6558","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Pres. Obama Approval Hits 60 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; <strong>President Barack Obama&#8217;s<\/strong> approval rating has hit its highest point in two years &#8212; 60 percent &#8212; and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll taken after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader <strong>Osama bin Laden<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In worrisome signs for Republicans, the president&#8217;s standing improved not just on foreign policy but also on the economy, and independent Americans &#8212; a key voting bloc in the November 2012 presidential election &#8212; caused the overall uptick in support by sliding back to <strong>Pres. Obama <\/strong>after fleeing for much of the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Comfortable majorities of the public now call <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> a strong leader who will keep America safe. Nearly three-fourths &#8212; 73 percent &#8212; also now say they are confident that <strong>Obama<\/strong> can effectively handle terrorist threats. And he improved his standing on Afghanistan, Iraq and the United States&#8217; relationships with other countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured: President Obama greets well wishers after stepping off Air Force One at Austin Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, May 10, 2011, for Democratic National Committee campaign fundraising events. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama&#8217;s approval rating has hit its highest point in two years &#8212; 60 percent &#8212; and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll taken after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. In worrisome signs for Republicans, the president&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}