{"id":353040,"date":"2018-03-20T13:29:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/american-public-troubled-by-deep-state-2\/"},"modified":"2018-03-20T13:29:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:29:02","slug":"american-public-troubled-by-deep-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/american-public-troubled-by-deep-state-2\/","title":{"rendered":"American Public Troubled by \u201cDeep State\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

by John V. Walsh \/ March 20th, 2018<\/p>\n

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\u201cPublic Troubled by Deep State\u201d is the headline that the Monmouth University Polling Institute tags to its recent poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Polling about the term \u201cDeep State\u201d is problematical, because as the polling report says:<\/p>\n

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Few Americans (13%) are very familiar with the term \u201cDeep State;\u201d another 24% are somewhat familiar, while 63% say they are not familiar with this term.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So the careful pollsters at Monmouth defined the term as follows for their interviewees:<\/p>\n

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The term Deep State refers to the possible existence of a group of unelected government and military officials who secretly manipulate or direct national policy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Then they asked whether such a group exists.<\/p>\n

Monmouth reports the results as follows:<\/p>\n

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Nearly 3-in-4 (74%) say they believe this type of apparatus exists in Washington. This includes 27% who say it definitely exists and 47% who say it probably exists. Only 1-in-5 say it does not exist (16% probably not and 5% definitely not).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Furthermore, these opinions do not follow a partisan divide.\u00a0 The report continues:<\/p>\n

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Belief in the probable existence of a Deep State comes from more than 7-in-10 Americans in each partisan group, although Republicans (31%) and independents (33%) are somewhat more likely than Democrats (19%) to say that the Deep State\u00a0definitely\u00a0exists.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This leads the director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, Patrick Murray, to volunteer:<\/p>\n

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We usually expect opinions on the operation of…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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by John V. Walsh \/ March 20th, 2018 \u201cPublic Troubled by Deep State\u201d is the headline that the Monmouth University Polling Institute tags to its recent poll. Polling about the term \u201cDeep State\u201d is problematical, because as the polling report says: Few Americans (13%) are very familiar with the term \u201cDeep State;\u201d another 24% are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}