Gallup: Low Trust in Federal Government Rivals Watergate Era Levels

Annual Gallup Survey Results - Trust in Government
Low Trust in Federal Government Rivals Watergate Era Levels:
"September 26, 2007 Low Trust in Federal Government Rivals Watergate Era Levels Trust in state, local governments holding steady by Jeffrey M. Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- A high degree of public trust in elected leaders is one of the basic underpinnings of representative government. Gallup's annual Governance survey shows that trust in the federal government has continued to decrease this year after showing noticeable signs of decline the past two years. Now, Americans generally express less trust in the federal government than at any point in the past decade, and trust in many federal government institutions is now lower than it was during the Watergate era, generally recognized as the low point in American history for trust in government."...

http://www.galluppoll.com/content/default.aspx?ci=28795 retrieved Oct. 12, 2007 by JMS