{"id":18315,"date":"2013-07-03T15:50:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T19:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18315"},"modified":"2013-07-05T12:51:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T16:51:24","slug":"happy-4th-poll-shows-americans-still-favor-limited-government-by-3-1-margin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18315\/happy-4th-poll-shows-americans-still-favor-limited-government-by-3-1-margin\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 4th:  Poll Shows Americans Still Favor Limited Government by 3-1 Margin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a nation founded on the principle of limited government, we can head into this July 4 weekend grateful that principle remains in favor.\u00a0 According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/june_2013\/63_view_too_powerful_government_as_bigger_threat_than_weaker_one\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmussen poll<\/a> released today, Americans prefer a government that is too limited to one that is too powerful by an overwhelming 3-to-1 margin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More Americans than ever (63%) think a government that is too powerful is a bigger danger in the world today than one that is not powerful enough.\u00a0A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 21% disagree and think a government that is not powerful enough is a bigger danger. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is still hope in the world&#8217;s last, best hope.\u00a0 Happy birthday, America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a nation founded on the principle of limited government, we can head into this July 4 weekend grateful that principle remains in favor.\u00a0 According to a Rasmussen poll released today, Americans prefer a government that is too limited to one that is too powerful by an overwhelming 3-to-1 margin: More Americans than ever (63%) [&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":[4187,742,991],"class_list":["post-18315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-july-4","tag-limited-government","tag-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18315","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=18315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18317,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18315\/revisions\/18317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}