{"id":908,"date":"2013-10-02T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=14307"},"modified":"2013-10-02T05:00:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T11:00:43","slug":"the-morning-buzz-americans-take-on-congress-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2013\/10\/the-morning-buzz-americans-take-on-congress-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morning Buzz | Americans\u2019 Take on Congress, Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI\u2019s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data \u2013 because what doesn\u2019t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle say they\u2019re representing citizens\u2019 interests by not compromising on Obamacare, but what do Americans really want? Well, that\u2019s a tricky question. Fifty six percent of the U.S. population agrees the government\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/2013\/10\/the-morning-buzz-americans-take-on-congress-obamacare\/\" class=\"more decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=Ar0Cx3Opcwc:wrZ5FAKyNyY:yIl2AUoC8zA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=Ar0Cx3Opcwc:wrZ5FAKyNyY:qj6IDK7rITs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute\/~4\/Ar0Cx3Opcwc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI&#8217;s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data &#8211; because what doesn&#8217;t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? 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