Tuesday
Oct192010
Nearly Half of All Americans Believe "The Federal Government Poses An Immediate Threat To Rights And Freedoms of Ordinary Citizens"
October 19, 2010 A new Gallup poll shows that a majority of Americans view the government as too powerful and obtrusive.
The poll found:
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59% of Americans now believe the federal government has too much power
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46% believe "the federal government poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens". Only slightly more (51%) disagree with that statement *
* Gallup notes:
One can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is 4 percentage points.
That means that as much as half of Americans may actually agree the government poses a threat.
