{"id":9002,"date":"2011-04-26T08:59:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T12:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9002"},"modified":"2014-02-04T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T14:08:34","slug":"americans-really-are-jaded-about-their-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/americans-really-are-jaded-about-their-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans really <em>are<\/em> jaded about their politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A survey from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/april_2011\/43_say_most_members_of_congress_are_corrupt\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmussen<\/a> shows that many Americans think of their political representatives as little better than scum:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mark Twain once said, \u201cIt could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.\u201d A large number of Americans share that skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 43% of the nation\u2019s voters believe that most members of Congress are corrupt. Only 27% disagree and doubt that most national legislators are that dishonorable. Thirty percent (30%) are not sure.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, there\u2019s little difference of opinion on this question between Republicans and Democrats. But voters not affiliated with either of the major parties are more doubtful: 51% think most members of Congress are corrupt. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s got to be an affront to the honest politicians . . . the other 91% are giving them a bad reputation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Only nine percent (9%) of voters now say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Fifty-six percent (56%) rate its performance as poor. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey from Rasmussen shows that many Americans think of their political representatives as little better than scum: Mark Twain once said, \u201cIt could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.\u201d A large number of Americans share that skepticism. A new Rasmussen Reports national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[363,949,289],"class_list":["post-9002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-corruption","tag-marktwain","tag-polls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2lc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24133,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions\/24133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}