{"id":29087,"date":"2018-01-29T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2018\/01\/29\/many-americans-going-to-the-polls-are-not-happy-with-our-democracy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:56:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:56:46","slug":"many-americans-going-to-the-polls-are-not-happy-with-our-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2018\/01\/29\/many-americans-going-to-the-polls-are-not-happy-with-our-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Americans Going to the Polls Are Not Happy With Our Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Special to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/371172-the-way-americans-feel-about-our-democracy-will-play-big-role-in-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hill\n<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just 46 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with the way democracy is working today in the United States, according to a 2017 Pew Research Center\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2017\/10\/16\/globally-broad-support-for-representative-and-direct-democracy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey<\/a>. Naysayers voice the more fervent views, as roughly twice as many U.S. adults say they are not satisfied at all with democracy as say they are very satisfied.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/371172-the-way-americans-feel-about-our-democracy-will-play-big-role-in-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hill<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 46 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with the way democracy is working today in the United States, according to a 2017 Pew Research Center 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