{"id":2994,"date":"2013-01-22T15:13:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2013-01-22T15:29:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T20:29:49","slug":"americans-reaction-to-obama-gun-proposals-is-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/americans-reaction-to-obama-gun-proposals-is-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans&#8217; Reaction to Obama Gun Proposals Is Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/11\/in-u-s-views-of-obama-democrats-improve-after-election\/bva_opinion_poll_in_france_on_economic_policy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2841\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2841\" alt=\"opinion_poll_TRP\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/BVA_opinion_poll_in_France_on_economic_policy-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Americans&#8217; immediate reaction to President Barack Obama&#8217;s proposals for new laws designed to reduce gun violence is more positive than negative, with 53% saying they would want their representative in Congress to vote for the set of proposed new laws, while 41% say their representative should vote against them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/159959\/americans-reaction-obama-gun-proposals-positive.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/l584m_8kb0yajvk3g6djeq.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These results are from Gallup polling conducted Thursday, Jan. 17, the day after Obama&#8217;s announcement. The question asked Americans about the &#8220;set&#8221; of new laws, even though in reality, to the extent the House and the Senate pursue these proposals, it could be on a one-by-one basis. The results suggest that Obama begins his campaign for passage of the laws with a majority &#8212; but not a supermajority &#8212; of the public behind him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/159959\/americans-reaction-obama-gun-proposals-positive.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Americans&#8217; Reaction to Obama Gun Proposals Is Positive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans&#8217; immediate reaction to President Barack Obama&#8217;s proposals for new laws designed to reduce gun violence is more positive than negative, with 53% saying they would want their representative in Congress to vote for the set of proposed new laws, while 41% say their representative should vote against them. &nbsp; &nbsp; These results are from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,20],"tags":[424,274,42,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994"}],"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=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}