{"id":379104,"date":"2010-03-02T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77993"},"modified":"2010-03-02T06:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T11:00:25","slug":"wanted-politician-with-populist-cred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/379104","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Politician With Populist Cred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/populists.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77994\" title=\"populists\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/populists-480x258.jpg\" alt=\"populists\" width=\"480\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Obama rarely registers much more than 50 percent approval,  he&#8217;s having trouble selling his message, and Americans continue to  suffer under the weight of the nation&#8217;s economic problems. So what can  the president do to help improve his standing among Democratic voters?  Well, for one thing, he could hitch himself to a rising populist star.  But like most politicians, no one is perfect and many of today&#8217;s  best-known populists have a strike or two against them right now (and  no, we&#8217;re not talking about John Edwards.)<\/p>\n<p>At the start of our  search, it quickly became obvious that after Obama picked several  populists for his cabinet, white men dominated the remaining ranks of  available politicians. Below is our list of the top five political  figures who may fit this new populist role &#8212; and it just so happens  that some of them could be available in 2012 when Obama may be searching  for a new second-in-command.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/77990\/5-chet-culver\" >Click here to begin slideshow.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama rarely registers much more than 50 percent approval, he&#8217;s having trouble selling his message, and Americans continue to suffer under the weight of the nation&#8217;s economic problems. So what can the president do to help improve his standing among Democratic voters? Well, for one thing, he could hitch himself to a rising populist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}