{"id":3357,"date":"2010-09-10T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:23:27","slug":"poll-62-say-no-matter-how-bad-things-are-congess-can-make-them-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3357","title":{"rendered":"Poll: 62% say no matter how bad things are, Congress can make them worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ha! From Rasmussen &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>But also, in a case of true blind faith, 19% say Congress can make things better &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/september_2010\/62_say_no_matter_how_bad_things_are_congress_can_make_them_worse\">This level of skepticism is shared by a majority of just about every partisan and demographic group, including 53% of Democrats whose party currently controls both houses of Congress<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The only exception is&#0160;the nation&#39;s Political Class. Seventy-five percent (75%) of voters in the political Mainstream say if something is not going well, Congress can always make it worse, but 63% of the Political Class disagree (see more on the <a href=\"\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/january_2010\/65_now_hold_populist_or_mainstream_views\" target=\"_self\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">Political Class-Mainstream<\/font><\/a><strong> <\/strong>divide).<br \/>&#0160;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ha! From Rasmussen &#8211; But also, in a case of true blind faith, 19% say Congress can make things better &#8230; This level of skepticism is shared by a majority of just about every partisan and demographic group, including 53% of Democrats whose party currently controls both houses of Congress The only exception is&#0160;the nation&#39;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8971,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/8971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}