{"id":152063,"date":"2015-05-18T19:12:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=152063"},"modified":"2015-05-18T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T19:12:12","slug":"americans-satisfaction-direction-us-falling-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/americans-satisfaction-direction-us-falling-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans&#8217; satisfaction with direction of US falling: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Americans&#8217; satisfaction with the direction of the United States continues to fall as they remain worried about government dysfunction and the country\u2019s economic problems, according to a new poll.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just 26 percent of Americans said they were satisfied with the way things are going in the nation in May, according to the latest data from Gallup&#8217;s May 6-10 poll.<\/p>\n<p>Since February, satisfaction with the direction of the US has dropped slightly each month, but these small drops have resulted in a six-point decline since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Satisfaction remains below the 36 percent historical average for Gallup&#8217;s trend dating back to 1979.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMajorities of Americans were typically satisfied with the direction of the US between 1998 and mid-2002 &#8212; including a record high of 71 percent in February 1999. But satis declined steadily in the latter half of President George W. Bush&#8217;s presidency as the public grew disillusioned with the war in Iraq and the national economy suffered,\u201d Gallup said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/18\/411706\/Gallup-poll-US-direction-satisfaction\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans&#8217; satisfaction with the direction of the United States continues to fall as they remain worried about government dysfunction and the country\u2019s economic problems, according to a new poll. Just 26 percent of Americans said they were satisfied with the way things are going in the nation in May, according to the latest data from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-152063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}