WashingtonsBlog: Multiple Polls – Americans Are More Afraid of the GOVERNMENT than TERRORISTS

here’s George ..

A Fox News survey polling a random national sample of 619 registered voters the day after the [Boston] bombing found[] for the first time since a similar question was asked in May 2001, more Americans answered “no” to the question, “Would you be willing to give up some of your personal freedom in order to reduce the threat of terrorism?” .. This is not entirely surprising. As we noted in February: For years, “conservative” pollsters have said that Americans are furious at the government. Rasmussen noted in 2010 that only a small minority of the American people think that the government has the consent of the governed, and that the sentiment was “pre-revolutionary”; Gallup noted in 2011 that a higher percentage of Americans liked King George during the colonial days than currently like Congress .. The Washington Post reported in 2011 that Congress was less popular than communism, BP during the Gulf oil spill or Nixon during Watergate; Public Policy Polling added last month that Congress is also less popular than cockroaches, lice, root canals, colonoscopies, traffic jams, used car salesman and Genghis Khan

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