{"id":6470,"date":"2008-06-03T14:05:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T14:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/voter_pessimism_over_finances_likely_to_influence_polls\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T14:05:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T14:05:01","slug":"voter_pessimism_over_finances_likely_to_influence_polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6470","title":{"rendered":"Voter pessimism over finances likely to influence polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are more downbeat about their personal financial situations now than they&#8217;ve been in decades, a USA TODAY\/Gallup Poll finds, an attitude likely to dominate this year&#8217;s presidential and congressional elections.<\/p>\n<p>A 55% majority of those surveyed say their families are worse off financially than they were a year ago \u201d\u201d the highest number since Gallup first asked the question in 1976 and a jump of 11 percentage points since February.<\/p>\n<p>Just 26% say they are better off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/election2008\/2008-06-02-poll_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are more downbeat about their personal financial situations now than they&#8217;ve been in decades, a USA TODAY\/Gallup Poll finds, an attitude likely to dominate this year&#8217;s presidential and congressional elections. A 55% majority of those surveyed say their families<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6470\">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":[40,149,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","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=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}