{"id":13127,"date":"2011-02-10T21:01:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T21:01:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-10T21:01:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T21:01:30","slug":"ppic-brown-approval-numbers-down-slightly-but-at-least-hes-not-the-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/10\/ppic-brown-approval-numbers-down-slightly-but-at-least-hes-not-the-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"PPIC: Brown Approval Numbers Down Slightly, But At Least He&#8217;s Not the Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PPIC released its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppic.org\/content\/pubs\/survey\/S_211MBS.pdf\">latest statewide poll<\/a>, and as you might expect for a governor who walked through the feces that his predecessor left all over the floor, his numbers are down slightly. &nbsp;However, it&#8217;s not that they disapprove, so much as they just aren&#8217;t sure.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the poll, 49.5 percent of adults said they weren&#8217;t sure what to make of Brown&#8217;s job performance, compared to 33.7 percent who approved of it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppic.org\/main\/publication.asp?i=967\">Last month<\/a>, 39 percent of California adults said they were unsure about Brown&#8217;s job performance and 41 percent approved. (<a href=\"http:\/\/californiawatch.org\/dailyreport\/poll-more-voters-unsure-about-browns-job-performance-8606\">CalWatch<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His big test will be this budget, and whether he can shepherd it out the door. &nbsp;His numbers are ultimately going to rest on what happens in the likely June special. &nbsp;Meanwhile, the Legislature is down in the low twenties.<\/p>\n<p>The poll also included several questions about health care. &nbsp;Apparently roughly one-half of all Californians want to lose weight. &nbsp;Meanwhile, large majorities are satisfied with their health, and similar numbers call themselves generally happy.<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PPIC released its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppic.org\/content\/pubs\/survey\/S_211MBS.pdf\">latest statewide poll<\/a>, and as you might expect for a governor who walked through the feces that his predecessor left all over the floor, his numbers are down slightly. &nbsp;However, it&#8217;s not that they disapprove, so much as they just aren&#8217;t sure.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the poll, 49.5 percent of adults said they weren&#8217;t sure what to make of Brown&#8217;s job performance, compared to 33.7 percent who approved of it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppic.org\/main\/publication.asp?i=967\">Last month<\/a>, 39 percent of California adults said they were unsure about Brown&#8217;s job performance and 41 percent approved. (<a href=\"http:\/\/californiawatch.org\/dailyreport\/poll-more-voters-unsure-about-browns-job-performance-8606\">CalWatch<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His big test will be this budget, and whether he can shepherd it out the door. &nbsp;His numbers are ultimately going to rest on what happens in the likely June special. &nbsp;Meanwhile, the Legislature is down in the low twenties.<\/p>\n<p>The poll also included several questions about health care. &nbsp;Apparently roughly one-half of all Californians want to lose weight. &nbsp;Meanwhile, large majorities are satisfied with their health, and similar numbers call themselves generally happy.<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[204],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-13127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-204","tag-83"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3pJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}