{"id":875949,"date":"2021-10-13T16:43:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=875949"},"modified":"2021-10-13T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:44:02","slug":"poll-despite-wall-to-wall-media-coverage-many-americans-still-dont-know-the-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-despite-wall-to-wall-media-coverage-many-americans-still-dont-know-the-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Despite Wall-To-Wall Media Coverage, Many Americans Still Don\u2019t Know \u2018The Squad\u2019"},"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%2Fpoll-despite-wall-to-wall-media-coverage-many-americans-still-dont-know-the-squad%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=875949&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--><p>Large numbers of Americans remain unfamiliar with the far-left group of House Democrats known as \u2018The Squad,\u201d according to a new poll released Wednesday by YouGov.<\/p>\n<p>The four members, all women representing deep blue districts, became media superstars almost immediately after taking office following the 2018 midterms. Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/02\/27\/pelosi-ilhan-omar-ocasio-cortez\/\">featured<\/a> on the cover of the February 2019 edition of Rolling Stone magazine alongside Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Ocasio-Cortez was <a href=\"https:\/\/knockdownthehouse.com\/\">featured<\/a> in the Netflix film \u201cKnock Down The House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, despite frequent and often-glowing media coverage, large numbers of Americans do not hold opinions of Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley. Twenty-six percent of Americans do not hold an opinion of Ocasio-Cortez, 38% do not hold an opinion of Omar, 44% do not hold an opinion of Tlaib and 59% do not hold an opinion of Pressley, the YouGov <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.cdn.yougov.com\/h2rgoa7a3x\/econTabReport.pdf\">poll<\/a> found. YouGov surveyed 1,500 U.S. adults between Oct. 9-12, and the poll had a margin of error of three points. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/07\/17\/poll-ice-more-popular-ocasio-cortez-tlaib-omar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Poll: ICE Is More Popular Than Any Member Of Freshman Democrat \u2018Squad\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7301234\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"39\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7301234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 JULY 26: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members (L-R) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) attend a hearing on drug pricing in the Rayburn House Office building on Capitol Hill July 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Those numbers could serve as a boon to Democrats, because many Americans who are familiar with \u201cThe Squad\u201d hold negative opinions of the legislators. Forty-two percent of polled individuals had a \u201csomewhat\u201d or \u201cvery unfavorable\u201d view of Ocasio-Cortez, 39% had a \u201csomewhat\u201d or \u201cvery unfavorable\u201d view of Omar, 36% had a \u201csomewhat\u201d or \u201cvery unfavorable\u201d view of Tlaib and 25% had a \u201csomewhat\u201d or \u201cvery unfavorable\u201d view of Pressley.<\/p>\n<p>Wealthier Americans were more likely to be familiar with \u201cThe Squad.\u201d Only 12% of individuals making more than $100,000 a year did not have an opinion of Ocasio-Cortez, compared to 37% of those making less than $50,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large numbers of Americans remain unfamiliar with the far-left group of House Democrats known as \u2018The Squad,\u201d according to a new poll released Wednesday by YouGov.The four members, all women &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875949","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=875949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}