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Questions - Government - April 15-16, 2014

See 37% of Voters Fear the Federal Government

National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted April 15-16, 2014
By Rasmussen Reports

 

1* How much of the time do you trust the federal government to do the right thing—almost always, most of the time, some of the time, or rarely or never?

 

2* Is the federal government today a protector of individual liberty or a threat to individual liberty?

 

3* Some people believe that the federal government has become a special interest group that looks out primarily for its own interests. Has the federal government become a special interest group?

 

4* If America’s Founding Fathers came back today, would they regard the federal government as too big or too small? Or would they say the size of the federal government is about right?

 

5* Do you fear the federal government?

 

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence