{"id":29122,"date":"2012-07-24T05:15:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T10:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29122"},"modified":"2013-02-25T16:51:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T22:51:03","slug":"the-party-of-pollyanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29122","title":{"rendered":"The Party Of Pollyanna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news, Democrats! \u00a0Your internal propaganda budget is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/business\/general_business\/july_2012\/partisan_economics_democrats_believe_economy_getting_better\">apparently well-spent<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats have a much more optimistic view of the U.S. economy than either Republicans or unaffiliated adults.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Currently, just 36% of Democrats believe the economy is in poor shape, according to new Rasmussen Reports polling. Nearly twice as many Republicans (67%) offer such a pessimistic view. So do 54% of those not affiliated with either major party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s gotta be either the propaganda budget thing, or most of them work in government jobs that are untouchable until the entire economy Greeces out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The national telephone survey of 3,500 American Adults was conducted by Rasmussen Reports July 14-20, 2012. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +\/- 2 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Confidence in the survey, of course. \u00a0Not the economy. \u00a0Or the accuracy of the pollyannas&#8217; views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news, Democrats! \u00a0Your internal propaganda budget is\u00a0apparently well-spent! Democrats have a much more optimistic view of the U.S. economy than either Republicans or unaffiliated adults. Currently, just 36% of Democrats believe the economy is in poor shape, according to new Rasmussen Reports polling. Nearly twice as many Republicans (67%) offer such a pessimistic view. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29122","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=29122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34607,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29122\/revisions\/34607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}