{"id":41848,"date":"2025-01-30T12:07:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41848"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:07:29","slug":"data-suggests-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/01\/30\/data-suggests-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Suggests Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Blake notes the data:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HNC7BV5IHNFWFLYENB2J7GM3FA\" data-el=\"text\">A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/poll-release?releaseid=3918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quinnipiac University poll<\/a>\u00a0released Wednesday had this stunning finding: While Americans were about evenly split in their views of the Republican Party (43 percent favorable to 45 percent unfavorable), negative views of the Democratic Party outpaced positive ones\u00a0<i>by 26 points\u00a0<\/i>\u2014 31 percent favorable to 57 percent unfavorable. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tracking polling from YouGov, for instance, shows the Democratic Party\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/trackers\/the-democratic-party-favorability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more unpopular than at any point since January 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"LQNG6WTML5DEDLGYIDOCFUPBKA\" data-el=\"text\">Similarly, <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/25498204\/cnn-poll-most-democrats-think-their-party-needs-major-change.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a CNN poll<\/a> released last week showed that a record-low 33 percent of Americans had a favorable view of the party.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/01\/29\/democrats-brutal-poll-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"LQNG6WTML5DEDLGYIDOCFUPBKA\" data-el=\"text\">And what do they, the surveyed, recommend?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"LQNG6WTML5DEDLGYIDOCFUPBKA\" data-el=\"text\">Nearly 6 in 10 Democratic-leaning voters say the party needs either \u201cmajor changes\u201d or \u201cto be completely reformed.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>How long will it take for the Democrats to figure it out? And who will lose the inevitable power struggle? Will they ever understand that Americans, even if they can&#8217;t articulate the foundations of society, recognize and assert their right to participate in major decisions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Blake notes the data: A\u00a0Quinnipiac University poll\u00a0released Wednesday had this stunning finding: While Americans were about evenly split in their views of the Republican Party (43 percent favorable to 45 percent unfavorable), negative views of the Democratic Party outpaced positive ones\u00a0by 26 points\u00a0\u2014 31 percent favorable to 57 percent \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/01\/30\/data-suggests-reform\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41849,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41848\/revisions\/41849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}