{"id":49954,"date":"2016-05-24T11:24:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=49954"},"modified":"2016-05-24T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:26:40","slug":"poll-61-percent-concerned-about-trumps-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2016\/05\/poll-61-percent-concerned-about-trumps-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: 61% Percent Concerned about Trump&#8217;s Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/first-read\/poll-61-percent-concerned-about-trump-s-experience-n578746\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/would_trump_or_clinton_be_better_at-_-_trump_better_clinton_better_chartbuilder_ee0726da9a568d866315e5cb7811ebef.nbcnews-ux-600-480-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asked in the new survey about Trump&#8217;s experience, only five percent of registered voters said they were enthusiastic about his unconventional professional history, while another 15 percent said they were comfortable with it.<\/p>\n<p>But a combined 61 percent say they have reservations (19 percent) or are outright uncomfortable (42 percent) with Trump&#8217;s lack of experience in the kinds of positions traditionally held by American commanders-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>To put that number in context: A lower total percentage of voters &#8211; 51 percent &#8211; expressed concern about Bernie Sanders potentially becoming the first self-described Democratic socialist to lead the country.<\/p>\n<p>Those who expressed concern about Trump&#8217;s lack of military or government experience included 68 percent of women, 60 percent of independents, 78 percent of undecided voters and about a third of Republican primary voters.<\/p>\n<p>Read Full Article =&gt;\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/first-read\/poll-61-percent-concerned-about-trump-s-experience-n578746\" target=\"_blank\">Poll: 61% Percent Concerned about Trump&#8217;s Experience &#8211; NBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked in the new survey about Trump&#8217;s experience, only five percent of registered voters said they were enthusiastic about his unconventional professional history, while another 15 percent said they were comfortable with it. But a combined 61 percent say they have reservations (19 percent) or are outright uncomfortable (42 percent) with Trump&#8217;s lack of experience&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1622,2065,319,2064],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49954"}],"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=49954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49960,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49954\/revisions\/49960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}