{"id":24471,"date":"2017-07-21T13:32:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T17:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24471"},"modified":"2017-07-27T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T15:00:11","slug":"poll-americans-still-prefer-smaller-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24471\/poll-americans-still-prefer-smaller-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll:  Americans Still Prefer Smaller Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the dire mainstream media cacophony, there&#8217;s more good news to report. \u00a0Not that any of those outlets will so much as mention this, but a new nationwide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/july_2017\/voters_favor_smaller_government_over_larger_more_involved_one\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmussen survey<\/a> finds that Americans continue to support smaller government over big government, and the disparity has only increased in recent months:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Voters still place preference on a smaller, more hands-off government than on a larger, more hands-on one. \u00a0A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 57% of likely U.S. voters would prefer a smaller government with fewer services and lower taxes over a larger, more active government with more services and higher taxes. \u00a0That&#8217;s up from 52% in March.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knows? \u00a0Perhaps even the mainstream media themselves are responsible, in a boomerang effect. \u00a0Regardless, it&#8217;s welcome and encouraging news on a summer Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the dire mainstream media cacophony, there&#8217;s more good news to report. \u00a0Not that any of those outlets will so much as mention this, but a new nationwide Rasmussen survey finds that Americans continue to support smaller government over big government, and the disparity has only increased in recent months: Voters still place preference on [&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":[602,85,658,1389],"class_list":["post-24471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-government","tag-rasmussen","tag-smaller-government","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24471","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=24471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24487,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24471\/revisions\/24487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}