{"id":574586,"date":"2021-06-26T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574586"},"modified":"2021-06-26T14:35:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:35:13","slug":"voters-say-congress-cares-more-about-impressing-media-than-helping-constituents-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voters-say-congress-cares-more-about-impressing-media-than-helping-constituents-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters Say Congress Cares More About Impressing Media Than Helping Constituents: Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvoters-say-congress-cares-more-about-impressing-media-than-helping-constituents-survey%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574586&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/house-democrats-scaled-e1617639866584.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"37.641676505313\">\n<p>Nearly 60% of likely voters who participated in a survey published Thursday believe that Congress \u201ccares more about what the media says than what their own constituents think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/media\/voters_say_congress_cares_more_about_media_than_constituents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the survey by Rasmussen Reports<\/a>, the number of respondents who said that the media is more important for lawmakers was more than twice the number of voters who said that the opinion of the constituents mattered more.<\/p>\n<p>59% of respondents said their House and Senate representatives are <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/13\/ocasio-cortez-congress-rein-in-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more concerned<\/a> about impressing the media, while 29% said they prioritize their constituents. Another 12% were hesitant to give a definitive answer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.6181818181818\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Voters Say Congress Cares More About Media Than Constituents <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Hd2yLF3iX\">https:\/\/t.co\/5Hd2yLF3iX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3DlmkZ8U5J\">pic.twitter.com\/3DlmkZ8U5J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rasmussen_Poll\/status\/1408817329371295750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The poll was conducted via telephone and online June 22-23 and asked 900 likely voters.<\/p>\n<p>Republican (64%), Democrat (49%) and unaffiliated voters (66%) alike were predominantly of the opinion that lawmakers valued what <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/10\/poll-trust-us-media-police-supreme-court-military-national-defense-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the media<\/a> has to say more than their constituents\u2019 concerns. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/03\/americans-poll-biden-abc-news-ipsos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Poll: Most Americans Think Country Is Headed In Right Direction, Highest Level Of Optimism In Almost 15 Years)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When asked, \u201cDo most members of Congress care what their constituents think?,\u201d only 21% answered \u201cYes,\u201d while those who said \u201cNo\u201d accounted for 62% of the survey participants.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 49% said \u201cNo\u201d and 35% answered \u201cYes,\u201d when asked, \u201cDoes your representative in Congress care what you think?\u201d Only 17% were unsure.<\/p>\n<p>The Reagan Institute\u2019s third annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganfoundation.org\/reagan-institute\/centers\/peace-through-strength\/reagan-institute-national-defense-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Defense Survey<\/a> published in early March indicated that the public\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/10\/poll-trust-us-media-police-supreme-court-military-national-defense-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trust in the media<\/a> had fallen from 16% to 14%.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 60% of likely voters who participated in a survey published Thursday believe that Congress \u201ccares more about what the media says than what their own constituents think.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281427,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/house-democrats-scaled-e1617639866584.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Voters Say Congress Cares More About Impressing Media Than Helping Constituents: Survey","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/house-democrats-scaled-e1617639866584.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Voters Say Congress Cares More About Impressing Media Than Helping Constituents: Survey","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}