{"id":12194,"date":"2010-07-22T06:52:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T11:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12194"},"modified":"2010-07-22T06:52:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T11:52:30","slug":"ill-bet-they-overpolled-democrats-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12194","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Bet <i>They<\/i> Overpolled Democrats, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tic-controlled Congress\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/141512\/Congress-Ranks-Last-Confidence-Institutions.aspx\">has the \u00a0confidence of 11%<\/a> of the American people:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gallup&#8217;s 2010 Confidence in Institutions poll finds Congress ranking dead last out of the 16 institutions rated this year. Eleven percent of Americans say they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress, down from 17% in 2009 and a percentage point lower than the previous low for Congress, recorded in 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To put this in perspective, used car salesmen got 24%, Lindsay Lohan got 18%, and the Snooki from <em>Jersey Shore <\/em>clocked 14%<\/p>\n<p>The part that <em>sho<\/em>uld have gotten the headline? \u00a0The Presidency dropped from 51 to 39% over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see if we can get it into single digits!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tic-controlled Congress\u00a0has the \u00a0confidence of 11% of the American people: Gallup&#8217;s 2010 Confidence in Institutions poll finds Congress ranking dead last out of the 16 institutions rated this year. Eleven percent of Americans say they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress, down from 17% in 2009 and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12195,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194\/revisions\/12195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}