{"id":1597,"date":"2010-02-12T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/12\/are-americans-really-all-that-angry\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T15:38:00","slug":"are-americans-really-all-that-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/12\/are-americans-really-all-that-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Americans really all that angry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turn on the television these days and you&#8217;re likely to think the Republic is about to implode under growing tensions and culture-war rage.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC and liberal blogs are brimming with outrage and umbrage.  <\/p>\n<p>Talk radio and Fox News are chock full of tea partiers and people talking about America tipping at the brink.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why this new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/12\/us\/politics\/12poll.html?hp\">survey from the New York Times<\/a> is so interesting to me.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that only 13% of Americans were &#8220;angry&#8221; about the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>The survey found that 17% are angry about the &#8220;way things are going in Washington.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not to pick on conservatives, but about half of the respondents hadn&#8217;t even heard of the tea party movement, or else had no opinion about it.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that an even higher percentage would be completely unaware of liberal activist groups.<\/p>\n<p>The great number of Americans fall into two categories:  <\/p>\n<p>38% are &#8220;disappointed but not angry&#8221; with the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>37% are &#8220;satisfied but not enthusiastic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That means 75% of Americans &#8212; 3\/4s of us! &#8212; are basically muddling along, trying to find solutions.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not ideologues, not hero worshippers, we&#8217;re not believers in apocalypse or meltdowns.  We&#8217;re just people who want good solid performance from our government.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the question:  Why doesn&#8217;t our media reflect &#8212; and cater to &#8212; the vast majority of us living in the middle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn on the television these days and you&#8217;re likely to think the Republic is about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}