US - CNN Poll: Trust in government at all-time low

[sharon sanders]

CNN Poll: Trust in government at all-time low
mug.steinhauser
Posted by
CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser
August 8, 2014


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Just 13% of Americans say the government can be trusted to do what is right always or most of the time, with just over three-quarters saying only some of the time and one in 10 saying they never trust the government, according to the poll.

"The number who trust the government all or most of the time has sunk so low that it is hard to remember that there was ever a time when Americans routinely trusted the government," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/08/08/cnn-poll-trust-in-government-at-all-time-low-2/

 

[JJackson]

Re: US - CNN Poll: Trust in government at all-time low

The BBC recently ran a very similar story graphing PEW data from 1958 to the present.
Looking back at when and why Americans trusted their government

 

[Emily]

Re: US - CNN Poll: Trust in government at all-time low

I read an article in one of the Liberian online newspapers lamenting the fact that it was the country's most educated and intelligent citizens who trusted their government so little that they believed that the Ebola scare was being faked to suck in foreign money.

It's sad when governments fail to that extent, but not surprising or uncommon.