Press TVMore than half of Americans (54 percent) consider the federal government a threat to individual liberty rather than a protector, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found.
According to the survey, just 22 percent trust the government as a protector of individual rights, down from 30 percent last November. Around 24 percent of voters are undecided.
In December 2012, 45 percent of voters said the federal government was a protector of individual rights, while 46 percent described it as a threat to those rights.
The poll also found that 37 percent of Americans now fear the federal government, while 47 percent do not. About 17 percent are not sure.
According to the survey, men and those 40 and over are more likely to fear the federal government than women and younger voters.
Sixty-seven percent of American citizens think the federal government is a special interest group that looks out primarily for its own interests, but 17 percent disagree, and 15 percent are undecided, according to the survey.
The poll said only 19 percent trust the government, down from 24 percent in June of last year. Some 44 percent trust the government to do the right thing only some of the time and 36 percent believe it rarely or never does the right thing.
Rasmussen Reports conducted the survey of 1,000 Likely Voters on April 15-16, 2014.
The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
“54% consider US govt. threat to individual liberty”
Don’t even waste your time reading this base propaganda. If they changed the number to 94% it might be believable, but you would still have to discount the result due to the method used to collect data.
“Rasmussen Reports conducted the survey of 1,000 Likely Voters…..a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found”
Half the country doesn’t vote because they realize it’s a scam, so “1000 likely voters” only includes people who have their head buried in the sand, and a telephone survey excludes everyone who has been so screwed by our “government” that they can’t even keep their phone turned on.
You may as well ask people their opinions before deciding to include them in the survey. This poll has absolutely no scientific merit as far as statistical data collection is concerned because it doesn’t begin with a random sampling of the population. These numbers mean absolutely nothing in the real world, and the article was only written to convince people that this government has any support at all.
Only 54%? Bahahaha! Yeah right. What a joke. Tell me another one.
Polls are always reliable.
I said that with a straight face.
Almost.