{"id":3094,"date":"2011-07-27T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2011-07-27T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T01:00:00","slug":"today-in-slightly-more-interesting-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3094","title":{"rendered":"Today in Slightly More Interesting Polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tough crowd <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/07\/27\/poll-52-percent-approve-of-gods-job-performance\/\">to please<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><strong>Poll: 52 percent approve of God\u2019s job performance<br \/><\/strong>By John Blake, CNN<\/p>\n<p>(CNN) \u2013 If you think voters are in cranky mood over politics, a new poll suggests that some of the dissatisfaction may run deeper.<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s job performance has trouble measuring up to many Americans&#8217; expectations, according to a poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm based in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Only 52 percent of Americans approve of God\u2019s job performance, the survey found, though just 9 percent disapprove.<\/p>\n<p>The polling question that prompted this curious response was, &#8220;If God exists, do you approve or disapprove of its performance?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When asked to evaluate God on some of the issues it is responsible for, voters give God its best rating on creating the universe, 71-5,&#8221; the polling report said. &#8220;They also approve of its handling of the animal kingdom 56-11, and even its handling of natural disasters 50-13.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In comparison, here&#8217;s how Canada&#8217;s Premiers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angus-reid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011.06.07_Premiers_CAN.pdf\">stack up<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brad Wall<\/strong> (Sask) 59%<br \/><strong>God<\/strong> (Universe) 52%<br \/><strong>Greg Selinger<\/strong> (Man) 48%<br \/><strong>Kathy Dunderdale<\/strong> (Newf) 43%<br \/><strong>David Alward<\/strong> (NB) 40%<br \/><strong>Christy Clark<\/strong> (BC) 36%<br \/><strong>Ed Stelmach<\/strong> (AB) 27%<br \/><strong>Darrell Dexter<\/strong> (NS) 26%<br \/><strong>Dalton McGuinty<\/strong> (ON) 19%<br \/><strong>Jean Charest<\/strong> (Que) 17%<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say, it would take an act of God for Brad Wall to lose this fall. And, given these numbers, even <em>that<\/em> might not be enough to defeat him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tough crowd to please: Poll: 52 percent approve of God\u2019s job performanceBy John Blake, CNN (CNN) \u2013 If you think voters are in cranky mood over politics, a new poll suggests that some of the dissatisfaction may run deeper. God\u2019s job performance has trouble measuring up to many Americans&#8217; expectations, according to a poll by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}