{"id":18398,"date":"2018-08-16T21:43:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T13:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/cnn-survey-suggests-support-for-space-force-doesnt-match-star-wars-appeal\/"},"modified":"2018-08-16T21:43:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T13:43:39","slug":"cnn-survey-suggests-support-for-space-force-doesnt-match-star-wars-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/cnn-survey-suggests-support-for-space-force-doesnt-match-star-wars-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN survey suggests support for Space Force doesn\u2019t match Star Wars appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News Brief:<\/strong> A CNN survey suggests most Americans don\u2019t back the Trump administration\u2019s plans to create a new military branch known as the Space Force. The survey, based on a sampling of 1,002 American adults, showed that 55 percent would rather keep the Air Force in charge of protecting U.S. space assets. Phil Larson, a space policy adviser in the Obama administration who\u2019s now at the University of Colorado, joked on Twitter that \u201cStar Wars: Episode 1 \u2013 The Phantom Menace\u201d (the movie featuring the widely panned Jar Jar Binks character) won higher ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. Support for the Space Force was similarly low in an Economist\/YouGov survey. Such polls aren\u2019t likely to sway the White House, however. <strong>Check out CNN\u2019s story and the detailed survey results.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Why does Trump want a Space Force?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vnUyv_xzB4I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Brief: A CNN survey suggests most Americans don\u2019t back the Trump administration\u2019s plans to create a new military branch known as the Space Force. The survey, based on a sampling of 1,002 American adults, showed that 55 percent would rather keep the Air Force in charge of protecting U.S. space assets. Phil Larson, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[439,4467,332,4905],"class_list":["post-18398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-military","tag-politics","tag-space-force","tag-star-wars"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}