{"id":171196,"date":"2018-07-16T03:49:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T07:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=171196"},"modified":"2018-07-16T03:49:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T07:49:42","slug":"dutertes-high-ratings-due-to-bluntness-says-lacson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/16\/dutertes-high-ratings-due-to-bluntness-says-lacson\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte\u2019s high ratings due to bluntness,\u00a0says Lacson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Panfilo Lacson believes that President Rodrigo Duterte is able to keep a high public trust and approval rating because of his &#8220;crass language and blunt words&#8221; that translates sincerity.<\/p>\n<p>This statement came after Pulse Asia Research, Incorporated released its latest survey today, showing Duterte\u2019s highest public approval and trust ratings so far. The president received an 88 percent approval rating and 87 percent trust rating.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lacson, the reason behind the continued trust of the Filipino people to Duterte can be attributed to being vocal in his sentiments and his ability to bounce back after being involved in controversies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my long years in politics, somehow, I\u2019ve learned two major factors that endear our country\u2019s leaders to the people \u2013 performance and messaging, not necessarily in that order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cHis crass language and blunt words, no matter how he delivers, come across as his tool to project sincerity. Either\u00a0that\u00a0or he is simply \u2018teflonic\u2019\u201d.<br \/>\n<strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 07\/ 13 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Panfilo Lacson believes that President Rodrigo Duterte is able to keep a high public trust and approval rating because &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}