{"id":440148,"date":"2010-03-17T18:39:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T22:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79556"},"modified":"2010-03-17T18:39:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T22:39:53","slug":"rnc-poll-%e2%80%98backroom-deals%e2%80%99-are-least-popular-aspect-of-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/440148","title":{"rendered":"RNC Poll: \u2018Backroom Deals\u2019 Are Least Popular Aspect of Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed in Massachusetts that the idea of &#8220;backroom deals&#8221; and horse-trading to bring on extra votes in the Senate &#8212; to get the bill to 60 &#8212; was far more unpopular than any aspect of the bill itself. An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/28529330\/RNC-Health-Care-Survey-3-17-10\">internal RNC poll<\/a>, released to the press this afternoon, backs that up. By far, senators who make &#8220;backroom deals&#8221; are less popular than senators who merely support health care reform.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-79556\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79555\" title=\"Picture 12\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-12-480x370.png\" alt=\"Picture 12\" width=\"480\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed in Massachusetts that the idea of &#8220;backroom deals&#8221; and horse-trading to bring on extra votes in the Senate &#8212; to get the bill to 60 &#8212; was far more unpopular than any aspect of the bill itself. An internal RNC poll, released to the press this afternoon, backs that up. By far, senators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440148","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\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}