Pew Poll: Government Is Not the Solution
Rob Bluey /
President Obama came to Washington to restore trust in government. A new Pew Research Center survey indicates he’s failed.
Just 22% of the poll’s respondents said they trust the federal government almost always or most of the time. That’s one of the all-time low points in the survey and represents a decline from when Obama took office.
The last time Americans felt this discontent with Washington was 1994. The similarities are eerie: A newly elected Democrat was in the White House, the country was recovering from a recession, and President Bill Clinton was making an aggressive push for government-run health care.
Republicans took control of Congress that November—and that was after Hillarycare failed to win approval in Congress.