{"id":543363,"date":"2010-04-26T12:20:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T16:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=83171"},"modified":"2010-04-26T12:20:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T16:20:05","slug":"poll-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-support-regulatory-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543363","title":{"rendered":"Poll Shows Americans Overwhelmingly Support Regulatory Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Washington Post\/ABC News poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/behind-the-numbers\/2010\/04\/most_back_stricter_financial_r.html#more\">approve<\/a> of financial regulatory reform, with two-thirds of respondents supporting the measures. Half approved of how President Barack Obama has handled the issue, with an equal number disapproving. Additionally, and not surprisingly, respondents approved of easier-to-understand measures, regardless of the partisan politicking surrounding them. For instance, the people polled approved of creating a bank-funded liquidation pool &#8212; derided by Republicans as a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/82636\/republicans-give-up-the-game\">permanent bailout<\/a>&#8221; fund &#8212; more so than derivatives reform, a complicated measure with bipartisan support.<span id=\"more-83171\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Screen-shot-2010-04-26-at-12.00.24-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-83172 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-04-26 at 12.00.24 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Screen-shot-2010-04-26-at-12.00.24-PM-479x272.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Washington Post\/ABC News poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly approve of financial regulatory reform, with two-thirds of respondents supporting the measures. Half approved of how President Barack Obama has handled the issue, with an equal number disapproving. Additionally, and not surprisingly, respondents approved of easier-to-understand measures, regardless of the partisan politicking surrounding them. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543363","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\/6662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}