{"id":201,"date":"2014-07-21T13:41:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T18:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2014-07-21T14:01:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T19:01:55","slug":"politico-poll-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Politico Poll Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News from a new Politico poll which was done over the course of two weeks, from July 1 &#8211; 13th, 2014.\u00a0 The results are in and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/images.politico.com\/global\/2014\/07\/18\/140718_politico_topline_july_2014_survey_t_142watermark.pdf\">read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Politico polled a list of voters, and a good mix of democrats, republicans and independents.<\/p>\n<p>The news is a bit depressing if one is a political leader of the country.\u00a0 People are slightly more pessimistic (52-48%), and a large number, 45%, are still worried about the economy in general.\u00a0 The next group US citizens are worried about is healthcare\u00a0in general at 9%.\u00a0 A sign that many do not share the optimistic view many democrats seem to be pushing.<\/p>\n<p>For the President, things remain bad, with this disapproving of his job 57-43%, and those strongly disapproving him at 44%, against those strongly approving him only at 15%.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Congress fares even worse, and Republicans lower than democrats.\u00a0 The good news for Republicans is people seem to slightly favor voting for them in the election over democrats 39-37%.<\/p>\n<p>Obamacare also is not faring well in the poll.\u00a0 Only 17% favor keeping the law as it is today.\u00a0 38% do not mind keeping the law, but think it needs modifications and 45% say it needs to be repealed.\u00a0 It would need some major good points for people to change their minds about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News from a new Politico poll which was done over the course of two weeks, from July 1 &#8211; 13th, 2014.\u00a0 The results are in and you can read it here. Politico polled a list of voters, and a good mix of democrats, republicans and independents. The news is a bit depressing if one is [&hellip;]<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=201\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[88,33,143,9,150,270,170,271],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-united-states","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-july","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-politico","tag-poll","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}