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Intensity Factor 4-Fold
- May 31, 2009
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Mind the trend
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-Geaux
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Story Highlights
The latest results are from Gallup's Sept. 9-13 Governance poll. The lower percentage of Americans agreeing in 2003 that the federal government posed an immediate threat likely reflected the more positive attitudes about government evident after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The percentage gradually increased to 44% by 2006, and then reached the 46% to 49% range in four surveys conducted since 2010.
The remarkable finding about these attitudes is how much they reflect apparent antipathy toward the party controlling the White House, rather than being a purely fundamental or fixed philosophical attitude about government
Half in U.S. Continue to Say Gov't Is an Immediate Threat
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-Geaux
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Story Highlights
- 49% say government poses immediate threat to rights, freedoms
- Republicans much more likely to see government as threat
- Americans give very diverse explanations for these views
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The latest results are from Gallup's Sept. 9-13 Governance poll. The lower percentage of Americans agreeing in 2003 that the federal government posed an immediate threat likely reflected the more positive attitudes about government evident after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The percentage gradually increased to 44% by 2006, and then reached the 46% to 49% range in four surveys conducted since 2010.
The remarkable finding about these attitudes is how much they reflect apparent antipathy toward the party controlling the White House, rather than being a purely fundamental or fixed philosophical attitude about government
Half in U.S. Continue to Say Gov't Is an Immediate Threat