{"id":1783,"date":"2010-04-15T13:12:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2010-04-15T13:12:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:12:37","slug":"im-surprised-that-many-americans-are-paying-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/im-surprised-that-many-americans-are-paying-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m surprised that many Americans are paying attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/127352\/Six-10-Americans-Expect-Taxes-Increase.aspx?utm_source=tagrss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=syndication&amp;utm_term=Politics\">a recent Gallup poll<\/a>, 63% of Americans expect their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1779\">taxes<\/a> to go up over the next year. <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/04\/15\/gallup-six-in-ten-americans-expect-tax-increases-in-the-next-year\/\"> Hot Air&#8217;s Ed Morrissey<\/a> points out that this poll doesn&#8217;t target likely voters or even just voters, it&#8217;s a poll of the general adult population. \u00a0This not a good sign for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/polyticks\/democrats.html\">democrats<\/a>. \u00a0If everybody is expecting their taxes to go up, that means the percentage is probably higher amount likely voters.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m betting that more and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2010\/04\/025998.php\"> more Americans are identifying<\/a> with the two unifying themes of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1727\">Tea Party protests<\/a>, <em>less government spending<\/em> and a <em>smaller government<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent Gallup poll, 63% of Americans expect their taxes to go up over the next year. Hot Air&#8217;s Ed Morrissey points out that this poll doesn&#8217;t target likely voters or even just voters, it&#8217;s a poll of the general adult population. \u00a0This not a good sign for the democrats. \u00a0If everybody is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[621,753,754],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-taxes-politics","tag-politics","tag-taxes","tag-tea-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-sL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}