{"id":545841,"date":"2010-04-28T09:52:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=83372"},"modified":"2010-04-28T09:52:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:52:22","slug":"poll-%e2%80%98taint-of-incumbency%e2%80%99-is-a-continuing-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545841","title":{"rendered":"Poll: \u2018Taint of Incumbency\u2019 Is a Continuing Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans hoping that voter unrest is targeted largely at the majority Democrats won&#8217;t like what they see in the latest Washington Post-ABC poll. That survey found that fewer than a third of voters are inclined to vote for their current representative, regardless of the lawmakers&#8217; party affiliation. The Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/27\/AR2010042705324.html?hpid=topnews\" >reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dissatisfaction is widespread, crossing party lines, ideologies and virtually all groups of voters. Less than a quarter of independents and just three in 10 Republicans say they&#8217;re leaning toward backing an incumbent this fall. Even among Democrats, who control the House, the Senate and the White House, opinion is evenly divided on the question.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a new trend. Indeed, elections experts <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/74823\/the-new-taint-of-incumbency\" >were warning months ago<\/a> that Americans&#8217; distrust in Congress crosses party lines to target all incumbents. Because the Democrats control more seats, of course, they stand ready to suffer the backlash more severely. But today&#8217;s poll results are a warning to Republican leaders that, in November, they&#8217;re in for a fight as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans hoping that voter unrest is targeted largely at the majority Democrats won&#8217;t like what they see in the latest Washington Post-ABC poll. That survey found that fewer than a third of voters are inclined to vote for their current representative, regardless of the lawmakers&#8217; party affiliation. The Post reports: Dissatisfaction is widespread, crossing party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545841","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\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}