{"id":334105,"date":"2017-11-08T17:12:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T16:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-41-in-trump-counties-say-us-worse-off-poll\/"},"modified":"2017-11-08T17:12:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T16:12:34","slug":"presstv-41-in-trump-counties-say-us-worse-off-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-41-in-trump-counties-say-us-worse-off-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-41% in &#8216;Trump counties&#8217; say US worse off: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A plurality of Americans who live in counties that helped US President Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election say the United States is worse off since he became president, a new poll shows.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll published on Wednesday found that 41 percent of Americans who live in &#8220;Trump counties&#8221; said the US was in worse shape since Trump took office, while 32 percent believe the country is better off.<\/p>\n<p>An additional 26 percent say the state of the nation has remained about the same.<\/p>\n<p>The poll surveyed residents from 438 counties in the states of Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>These counties are made up of people who are whiter, more rural, less educated and older compared to the rest of the country, the poll shows.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been\u00a0accused of mishandling key issues like foreign policy, economy,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/11\/08\/541468\/41-in-Trump-counties-say-US-is-worse-off-since-Trump-became-president-Poll\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plurality of Americans who live in counties that helped US President Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election say the United States is worse off since he became president, a new poll shows. The NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll published on Wednesday found that 41 percent of Americans who live in &#8220;Trump counties&#8221; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-334105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334105","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=334105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}