{"id":27409,"date":"2011-07-22T21:25:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T21:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_poll_americans_see_huge_leadership_deficit\/"},"modified":"2011-07-22T21:25:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T21:25:54","slug":"usa_today_poll_americans_see_huge_leadership_deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27409","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Poll: Americans see huge leadership deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans haven&#8217;t been pleased by the political shenanigans they&#8217;ve seen in the down-to-the-wire talks over raising the federal debt limit.<\/p>\n<p>Half of those surveyed in a USA TODAY\/Gallup Poll say President Obama and Congress are doing a worse job than their predecessors in dealing with problems. Four in 10 call it the worst they&#8217;ve seen in their lifetimes. Thirty-four percent say current politicians are doing about as well as their predecessors; 13% say they&#8217;re doing better.<\/p>\n<p>At least two-thirds say that congressional Republicans and Democrats are putting their political interests ahead of the country&#8217;s good. Just 7% see both sides as negotiating in good faith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/NEWS\/usaedition\/2011-07-22-debt-pollART_ST_U.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans haven&#8217;t been pleased by the political shenanigans they&#8217;ve seen in the down-to-the-wire talks over raising the federal debt limit. Half of those surveyed in a USA TODAY\/Gallup Poll say President Obama and Congress are doing a worse job than<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27409\">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":[40,50,209,670,149,617,616,151,667,618,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-budget","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27409","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=27409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}