{"id":1549,"date":"2005-03-16T14:25:27","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T21:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/but-congressional-republican-approval-of-themselves-is-at-an-all-time-high\/"},"modified":"2005-03-16T14:25:27","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T21:25:27","slug":"but-congressional-republican-approval-of-themselves-is-at-an-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/but-congressional-republican-approval-of-themselves-is-at-an-all-time-high\/","title":{"rendered":"But Congressional Republican Approval of Themselves is at an All Time High!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Only 37% Approve of Congress, a 'Surprising Drop'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000838433\">Gallup: Only 37% Approve of Congress, a &#8216;Surprising Drop&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Gallup Poll released today finds what Frank Newport, its director, calls <b>a \u201csurprising drop in Americans\u2019 approval of the way Congress is handling its job.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A poll completed last week found <b>only 37% of American approve of Congress&#8217; job performance, down from 45% just one month ago, and its lowest rating since 1999<\/b>. \u201cMy guess,\u201d Newport reports, \u201cis that congressional approval is suffering from a generalized reaction to the bickering about Social Security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the same poll, <b>only 42% said they were \u201csatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S.\u201d This is down from 45% in February. A closer look finds a dramatic partisan divide, with 69% of Republicans saying they are satisfied and only 18% of Democrats.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, President Bush\u2019s approval rating stands at 52%, the same as last month.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to rank the biggest problems facing the country, 28% mentioned various economic problems, 25% the war in Iraq, 12% Social Security, and 9% terrorism or health care. Among the issues mentioned by less than 1%: the energy crisis, gay issues, abortion, racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup: Only 37% Approve of Congress, a &#8216;Surprising Drop&#8217; A new Gallup Poll released today finds what Frank Newport, its director, calls a \u201csurprising drop in Americans\u2019 approval of the way Congress is handling its job.\u201d A poll completed last week found only 37% of American approve of Congress&#8217; job performance, down from 45% just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/but-congressional-republican-approval-of-themselves-is-at-an-all-time-high\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">But Congressional Republican Approval of Themselves is at an All Time High!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}