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...national polls following the Oklahoma City bombing, most Americans supported measures that wouldallow the government more toolsfor tracking down terrorists, even at the cost of personal privacy. In a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll, 72 percent agreed that law enforcement offices could infringe on civil liberties when actively investigating armed resistance groups. But four out of ten cautioned that the federal government is already so large and powerful that theconstitutional rights of ordinary citizens are threatened. However, 71 percent believe stockpiling weapons should not be included among such freedoms, while 78 percent say that citizens should not be allowed...
History and political science suggest that voters are more discerning than the critics of ``hyperdemocracy'' (themselves often elites fearful of displacement) have been warning. ``On most major issues we've dealt with in the past 50 years,'' pollster George Gallup Sr. noted in 1984, ``the public was more likely to be right -- based on the judgment of history -- than the legislatures or Congress...
...same could be said of American men--and women--in 1995. In one of the most faith-drenched of all nations, the citizenry contributes $57 billion a year to religion, plus untold hours of volunteer labor. Four out of 10 adults regularly tell Gallup they attended worship in the past week--and even if that count is inflated by good intentions, it still vastly surpasses weekly professional-sports attendance. An overwhelming 95% of Americans profess belief...
Most Americans think Congress should skip hearings on the Whitewater affair -- even though many believe President Clinton probably cut ethical corners, according to a CNN/USA Today Gallup poll released Thursday. Despite a 56 to 41 percent majority against staging hearings -- which incoming Senate Banking Committee chairman Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.) has threatened to -- the poll found a plurality of the 1,016 respondents (46 percent) thought Clinton had behaved unethically but not illegally in his dealings with an Arakansas thrift. Why keep the Senate gavels in the drawer? Two-thirds said hearings would simply be a political...
...another perversion of the tyranny of the American majority, those rare unified blips on the heart-monitors of public opinion are invariably amplified and exploited by congressional campaigners. Showing no discrimination for which of those mass sentiments they exploit, many candidates simply tout the Gallup line, even if it means promoting hate for and undermining the very institution they seek to build. Polls showing that 70 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with Congress are like great waves of what the New York Times calls "sheer undifferentiated anger" on which candidates can coast to victory...