Polling

Poll Watch: 45 Per Cent Say They Get Involved In Politics to PROTECT Themselves FROM Government

And, only 44 per cent say they are involved to make the country a better place.

Forty-five percent (45%) of Americans adults say most people get involved in politics to protect themselves from what the government might do, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Forty-four percent (44%) believe most get involved in politics to help make the country better.

While most men (51%) say people get involved in politics primarily to protect themselves, a plurality of women (46%) believe most get involved to better the country.

There’s a sizable partisan divide on the question, too. Most Democrats (59%) say people generally get involved to make the country better. The opposite view is held by most Republicans (54%) and the majority of those not affiliated with either major party (56%).

Quite a divide here. This is one of the reasons that corporate American ponies up the campiagn cash to the party in power regardless of ideology.

It is called PROTECTION.

What a racket.