{"id":404,"date":"2009-08-31T11:10:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T15:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=404"},"modified":"2009-08-31T13:02:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T17:02:01","slug":"u-s-voters-throw-out-current-congress-start-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/404\/u-s-voters-throw-out-current-congress-start-over\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Voters: Throw Out Current Congress, Start Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress&#8217; popularity has been in the dump for some time now.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s not surprising that a\u00a0large majority of voters believe that the entire Congress should be thrown out of office and that we should start anew.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/august_2009\/57_would_like_to_replace_entire_congress\" target=\"_blank\">new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey<\/a>, &#8220;57% [of U.S. voters] would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again.&#8221;\u00a0 A mere one in four voters, or 25%, would vote to keep the current Congress.\u00a0 18% are unsure what they would do.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights of the survey include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>70% of voters unaffiliated with\u00a0either\u00a0major political\u00a0party would vote to replace ALL members of the House and Senate.<\/li>\n<li>A mere 14% of voters give the current Congress a &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;excellent&#8221; rating for performance.<\/li>\n<li>74% of voters trust their own economic judgement over that of Congress.<\/li>\n<li>75% of voters say Members of Congress are more interested in their own careers than helping the people they are supposed to represent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full summary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/august_2009\/57_would_like_to_replace_entire_congress\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress&#8217; popularity has been in the dump for some time now.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s not surprising that a\u00a0large majority of voters believe that the entire Congress should be thrown out of office and that we should start anew. According to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, &#8220;57% [of U.S. voters] would vote to replace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,85],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-rasmussen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}