{"id":2690,"date":"2012-09-28T07:24:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T11:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2012-09-28T07:24:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T11:24:51","slug":"americans-preference-shifts-toward-one-party-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/americans-preference-shifts-toward-one-party-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans&#8217; Preference Shifts Toward One-Party Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/157739\/americans-preference-shifts-toward-one-party-government.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/0gnkyr5ti06avdbjwfa8kq.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A record-high 38% of Americans prefer that the same party control the presidency and Congress, while a record-low 23% say it would be better if the president and Congress were from different parties and 33% say it doesn&#8217;t make any difference. While Americans tend to lean toward one-party government over divided government in presidential election years, this year finds the biggest gap in preferences for the former over the latter and is a major shift in views from one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/157739\/americans-preference-shifts-toward-one-party-government.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Americans&#8217; Preference Shifts Toward One-Party Government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record-high 38% of Americans prefer that the same party control the presidency and Congress, while a record-low 23% say it would be better if the president and Congress were from different parties and 33% say it doesn&#8217;t make any difference. While Americans tend to lean toward one-party government over divided government in presidential election&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[1426,424,26,1539,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}