{"id":27006,"date":"2011-06-30T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_poll_shows_support_for_afghanistan_plan\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:00:10","slug":"usa_today_poll_shows_support_for_afghanistan_plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27006","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Poll shows support for Afghanistan plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s plan to withdraw thousands of U.S. troops from Afghanistan this year and next wins broad approval from Americans who are increasingly ready for the nation&#8217;s longest war to end, a Gallup Poll finds.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, taken after the president&#8217;s nationally televised address on Afghanistan last Wednesday, shows an overwhelming 72% favor his blueprint, including 50% of Republicans. Those who support it include a significant number who would like to see a faster withdrawal than he has proposed.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-three percent of those polled oppose the president&#8217;s plan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/NEWS\/usaedition\/2011-06-29-afghanistan-poll_ST_U.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s plan to withdraw thousands of U.S. troops from Afghanistan this year and next wins broad approval from Americans who are increasingly ready for the nation&#8217;s longest war to end, a Gallup Poll finds. The survey, taken after the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27006\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,143,144,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}