{"id":20670,"date":"2014-05-12T15:43:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T19:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20670"},"modified":"2014-05-12T15:48:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T19:48:22","slug":"new-poll-majority-of-americans-care-about-irslois-lerner-scandal-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20670\/new-poll-majority-of-americans-care-about-irslois-lerner-scandal-too\/","title":{"rendered":"New Poll:  Majority of Americans Care About IRS\/Lois Lerner Scandal, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/2180-new-poll-majority-favors-further-investigation-of-benghazi\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty Update<\/a>, we debunked the claim by the Obama Administration, its Democratic Congressional apologists and the mainstream media that the Benghazi scandal is something about which Americans just don&#8217;t care.\u00a0 According to a Rasmussen survey released last week, 51%  say that the Benghazi affair merits further investigation, while just 34% disagree:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One can only imagine survey data on the matter if  the media had bothered to cover it as it deserves.\u00a0 Or, perhaps more to  the point, if a Republican president presided over the attack and  political coverup.\u00a0 Nevertheless, it\u2019s an encouraging sign that the  American public not only expresses concern, but prefers continued  investigation.\u00a0 That should encourage Congressional leaders and media to  get to the bottom of this important matter.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, there&#8217;s more encouraging news in that regard.\u00a0 Rasmussen also reports that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/may_2014\/57_favor_further_investigation_of_the_irs\" target=\"_blank\">clear majority<\/a> of Americans also say the ongoing IRS\/Lois Lerner scandal merits further investigation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Half of voters still believe the IRS broke the law when it targeted Tea  Party and other conservative groups, and even more think the matter  needs to be looked into further.\u00a0 A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% of likely U.S. voters think the Obama administration\u2019s handling of the IRS  matter merits further investigation.\u00a0 Just half as many (28%) say the  case should be closed.\u00a0 Fifteen percent (15%) are not sure.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both Benghazi and the IRS persecution of conservative groups are critical matters, and Americans shouldn&#8217;t allow the Administration to bury them.\u00a0 Fortunately, that&#8217;s not the case, which should encourage the media and members of Congress to pursue the truth in both cases in a responsible, thorough, public manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In last week&#8217;s Liberty Update, we debunked the claim by the Obama Administration, its Democratic Congressional apologists and the mainstream media that the Benghazi scandal is something about which Americans just don&#8217;t care.\u00a0 According to a Rasmussen survey released last week, 51% say that the Benghazi affair merits further investigation, while just 34% disagree: One [&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":[3862,735,4153],"class_list":["post-20670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-benghazi","tag-irs","tag-lois-lerner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20670","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=20670"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20676,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20670\/revisions\/20676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}