{"id":655,"date":"2008-10-05T23:30:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T03:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2008-10-06T10:45:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T14:45:31","slug":"rasmussen-59-would-vote-to-replace-entire-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/05\/rasmussen-59-would-vote-to-replace-entire-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasmussen: 59% Would Vote to Replace Entire Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Color me unsuprised… Rasmussen has released the results of a new poll showing that 59% of voter would vote to replace the entire Congress<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Congress was front and center in the national news last week and the American people were far from impressed. If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, 59% of voters would like to throw them all out and start over again. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 17% would vote to keep the current legislators in office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I generally take polls with a grain of salt and a healthy bit of scepticism but not this one… I don’t think the inside the beltway really understands just how much disdain average Americans have for them.<\/p>\n

H\/T: American Digest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Color me unsuprised… Rasmussen has released the results of a new poll showing that 59% of voter would vote to replace the entire Congress: Congress was front and center in the national news last week and the American people were far from impressed. If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, 59% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[160,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"tag-congress","8":"tag-rasmussen-reports","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-az","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5640,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/poll-67-say-america-is-more-divided-than-4-years-ago\/","url_meta":{"origin":655,"position":0},"title":"Poll: 67% say America is more divided than 4 years ago","author":"Jeff","date":"July 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"From Rasmussen Reports: Voters strongly believe the United States is a more divided nation these days, and they think both sides are to blame. 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