{"id":386920,"date":"2010-03-03T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/poll-shows-americans-consider-government-to-be-broken\/"},"modified":"2010-03-03T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T03:01:00","slug":"poll-shows-americans-consider-government-to-be-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/386920","title":{"rendered":"Poll Shows Americans Consider Government To Be Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/White+House_1961_19638575_0_0_7004940_300.jpg\" alt=\"Poll shows Americans consider government to be broken\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that the United States government system is broken, but most also say that there is some hope for it to improve, according to a recent <i>CNN<\/i>-Opinion Research Corporation poll. <\/p>\n<p>The study found that a staggering 86 percent of U.S. residents hold such negative opinion about their government, an increase from 77 percent three years ago. <\/p>\n<p>However, only 5 percent of them believe the government cannot be fixed, while 81 percent still hold out hope for improvement, which is 10 percent more than in late 2006. <\/p>\n<p>Keating Holland, <em>CNN<\/em> polling director, said that the increase in the number of Americans who see their government as broken is the most pronounced among higher-income individuals and those who live in rural areas. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Maybe it&#8217;s just a coincidence, but those are the groups that make up the bulk of the Tea Party [movement] today,&quot; he suggested, quoted by the news network&#8217;s website. <\/p>\n<p>According to a separate <i>CNN<\/i>-Opinion Research Corporation poll, activists in the Tea Party movement&#8212;which was created last year in response to the massive stimulus package passed by Congress and signed by President Obama&#8212;tend to be male, rural, upscale and are overwhelmingly conservative. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19638575-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19638575\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that the United States government system is broken, but most also say that there is some hope for it to improve, according to a recent CNN-Opinion Research Corporation poll. The study found that a staggering 86 percent of U.S. residents hold such negative opinion about their government, an increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386920","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\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}