Posted on 10/13/2025 7:28:50 AM PDT by Twotone
A poll released Friday shows a record 62 percent of Americans say the federal government has too much power — the highest share since Gallup first began tracking this trend in 2001.
In 2024, a little more than half (51 percent) of Americans surveyed said they believed the federal government had too much power. Among Democrats, the percentage holding this belief surged from 25 percent to 66 percent this year, when President Trump returned to the White House.
Republicans trended in the opposite direction, though to a lesser degree. Seventy-five percent of Republicans surveyed last year believed the government had too much power. This year, that number dropped to 58 percent.
The poll marks the first time since 2007 that Democrats have been more likely than Republicans to say they believe the federal government has too much power.
Previous polls indicate that the partisan shifts corresponded to changes in presidential administrations, with both sides more likely to say the federal government had too much power if a president of the opposite party was in office.
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These polls are nearly useless. Answer one way when Dems are in power and another when Republicans are in.
How many of that sixty two percent thought government was fine a year ago?
I think that just shows people are herd animals. It would be nice if they actually had principles.
The polls are useless. The next question should be - What should be cut? And the plurality answer will be “nothing.”
This poll is meaningless. The shill trying to use it tells us that.
Government has too much power, and with it, even higher levels of incompetence and outright fraud.
I generally agree with that. Although there are a few among us who will always answer "yes", including right now.
The Constitution was set up to make it difficult for laws to be passed absent a broad consensus. Checks and balances/separation of powers is a built-in brake on an activist government.
I believe the country got out of whack when Congress was permitted to delegate too much authority to the executive branch, either to the President directly or to unaccountable "independent agencies". That delegation of powers enabled the executive branch to essentially "pass laws" without going through the normal lawmaking process. And the parties in power liked it that way. That's true even of the current Administration in some respects.
I'd like to see the entire issue of delegation of Congressional authority ratcheted back "bigly". If Congress doesn't pass laws that one side or the other believe are "necessary", and instead does nothing because of "gridlock"...good.
Went from 25 to 66 percent since the previous admin, so yeah, its fine when dems have power.
You want a body (Congress) to take on responsibility for which they have intentionally abdicated for 20+ years?
OK, then.
Who was polled? Would love to see that demographic and question construction.
Yes. A Congress that does too little is much better than a Congress/Executive Branch that does too much.
The government controls, regulates, monitors and/or influences virtually every aspect of our lives. It has become a giant, bloated bureaucracy whose reach knows no limitations.
Pretty much everything you buy or own is subject to some kind of federal influence. That is not the way a free country should be.
Hopefully Fedzilla can be downsized to where its focus is more in line with the limited powers that the Founders had in mind from the outset.
Consider the leftist “source”.
These polls are actually very useful.
“Answer one way when Dems are in power”
The media reports one way when Dems are in power.
“and another when Republicans are in.”
The media reports a different way when Republicans are in.
The usefuless of these polls is in demonstrating how much power the media has in controlling public opinion. They run these polls so they can confirm for themselves that as journalists they still hold dominion over the United States.
The “poll” will flip the other way if/when Democrats are again in power.
😂 leftists are such idiots. I 100% guarantee you that if Biden of Heels Up were POTUS these idiots would be grinning from ear to ear about any and all federal intrusion and control over their lives.
A year ago, the Democrats not only wanted the government to seize all guns, but they also wanted the government to censor all speech by conservatives.
Well then, they ought to be cheering as Trump downsizes government and eliminates departments and functions exercising power in unconstitutional ways... right?
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