{"id":18204,"date":"2013-06-18T17:15:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T21:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18204"},"modified":"2013-06-18T17:17:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T21:17:16","slug":"poll-alarm-over-irs-abuse-growing-not-receding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18204\/poll-alarm-over-irs-abuse-growing-not-receding\/","title":{"rendered":"New Poll:  Alarm Over IRS Abuse Growing, Not Receding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Administration, Congressional Democrats and liberals generally may claim that the IRS scandal is essentially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-3460_162-57588387\/rep-cummings-claims-evidence-irs-scandal-didnt-originate-in-d.c\/\" target=\"_blank\">resolved<\/a>, that &#8220;there&#8217;s no there there.&#8221;\u00a0 The American people disagree, and in growing numbers.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Rasmussen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/june_2013\/distrust_growing_70_believe_irs_decision_to_target_conservatives_was_made_in_dc\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a> released today, some 70% now believe that the unconstitutional and criminal targeting originated in Washington, not some insular Cincinnati cubicle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the controversy over the National Security Agency surveillance  program has dominated the news recently, concern about the Internal  Revenue Service\u2019s targeting of Tea Party groups and other conservative  organizations remains high and is inching up.\u00a0 Despite the large number  of controversies engulfing official Washington, the number of people  following the IRS scandal has actually increased in recent weeks.\u00a0 A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 82% of  voters nationwide are now following the IRS targeting story, including  44% who are following the story &#8216;Very Closely.&#8217;\u00a0 The overall number of  voters who are following is up from 74% a month ago.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seemed as though the cascade of Obama Administration scandals might paradoxically mitigate the gravity of any one of them individually.\u00a0 But from this poll and Obama&#8217;s plummeting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html\" target=\"_blank\">approval numbers<\/a>, it appears that a healthier sense of sobriety prevails, at least for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Administration, Congressional Democrats and liberals generally may claim that the IRS scandal is essentially resolved, that &#8220;there&#8217;s no there there.&#8221;\u00a0 The American people disagree, and in growing numbers. According to a Rasmussen survey released today, some 70% now believe that the unconstitutional and criminal targeting originated in Washington, not some insular Cincinnati cubicle: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[928,735,24],"class_list":["post-18204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-conservative","tag-irs","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18209,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18204\/revisions\/18209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}