By a 60-34 percent margin, American voters distrust the federal government, and that is about where sentiment has stood for more than a decade.
A majority of 54 percent trusted the government when the Fox News Poll first asked the question during George W. Bush’s presidency in 2002. That was fairly soon after September 11, so that number reflected a national rallying of sentiment around those attacks. CONTINUED
Dana Blanton, Fox News
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