{"id":323776,"date":"2010-02-13T19:01:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T00:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22171"},"modified":"2010-02-13T19:01:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T00:01:13","slug":"only-8-of-americans-want-the-current-members-of-congress-re-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/323776","title":{"rendered":"Only 8% of Americans Want the Current Members of Congress Re-Elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan D. Salant writes in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/bloomberg\/20100212\/pl_bloomberg\/aesowriv31_g\">Bloomberg via Yahoo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Just 8 percent of Americans want the members of Congress re-elected, according to a CBS News-New York Times poll taken nine months before roughly one-third of the Senate and the entire House face voters.<\/p>\n<p>The Feb. 5\u201310 survey found 81 percent of respondents saying the lawmakers shouldn\u2019t receive another term. By 80 percent to 13 percent, Americans said members of Congress are more interested in serving special interests than the people they represent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/JointSessionCongress.jpg\" alt=\"Joint Session of Congress\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22172 aligncenter\" height=\"311\" width=\"491\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also, 75 percent disapproved of the job Congress is doing, the highest level since 74 percent said they disapproved in October 2008. Congress\u2019s job approval rating was 15 percent in the current survey; it was 12 percent in October 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Half of those surveyed said they wanted to abolish the filibuster in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan D. Salant writes in Bloomberg via Yahoo News: Just 8 percent of Americans want the members of Congress re-elected, according to a CBS News-New York Times poll taken nine months before roughly one-third of the Senate and the entire House face voters. The Feb. 5\u201310 survey found 81 percent of respondents saying the lawmakers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}