{"id":22907,"date":"2015-06-15T14:33:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T18:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22907"},"modified":"2015-06-15T17:13:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T21:13:44","slug":"gallup-other-than-military-and-small-business-americans-confidence-in-u-s-institutions-at-historic-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22907\/gallup-other-than-military-and-small-business-americans-confidence-in-u-s-institutions-at-historic-lows\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallup:  Other Than Military and Small Business, Americans&#8217; Confidence in U.S. Institutions at Historic Lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an organization whose very name prizes individual freedom, it cannot escape notice that as liberty in all aspects of American life seems under siege, citizens&#8217; confidence in major institutions reaches historic lows. \u00a0According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/183593\/confidence-institutions-below-historical-norms.aspx?utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=morelink&amp;utm_campaign=syndication\" target=\"_blank\">Gallup survey released today<\/a>, only the military and small business remain notable (and telling) exceptions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Americans&#8217; confidence in most major U.S. institutions remains below the historical average for each one. \u00a0Only the military (72%) and small business (67%) &#8211; the highest-rated institutions in this year&#8217;s poll &#8211; are currently rated higher than their historical norms, based on the percentage expressing &#8216;a great deal&#8217; or &#8216;quite a lot&#8217; of confidence in the institution&#8230; \u00a0From a broad perspective, Americans&#8217; confidence in all institutions over the last two years has been the lowest since Gallup began systematic updates of a larger set of institutions in 1993.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the 2016 presidential race accelerates, this has important implications for the candidates and potential candidates. \u00a0That&#8217;s particularly ominous for Hillary Clinton, who in effect demands &#8220;Four more years!&#8221; from the American electorate in the face of historical fact that only once since World War II has a party been elected to a third consecutive White House term (George H.W. Bush in 1988).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an organization whose very name prizes individual freedom, it cannot escape notice that as liberty in all aspects of American life seems under siege, citizens&#8217; confidence in major institutions reaches historic lows. \u00a0According to a Gallup survey released today, only the military and small business remain notable (and telling) exceptions: Americans&#8217; confidence in most [&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":[4696,842,4697],"class_list":["post-22907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-confidence","tag-gallup","tag-institutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22907","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=22907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22911,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22907\/revisions\/22911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}