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Poll Finds 2 in 5 Americans Believe US Becoming Socialist State

by Kathy Jones on Jul 16 2012 2:58 PM

 Poll Finds 2 in 5 Americans Believe US Becoming Socialist State
A new poll has found that two of every five Americans today believe that the United States is evolving into a socialist country.
According to a Monitor/TIPP poll, 40 percent of respondents felt that the US in evolving into a socialist state as opposed to the 36 percent who disagreed with the notion, while about one-quarter of the respondents expressed a neutral view or said they were unsure.

The poll results showed that while some 30 percent of Americans "strongly agreed" with the view that the US is evolving toward socialism, another 10 percent "somewhat agreed" to it, Christian Science Monitor reports.

The survey also revealed that over 50 percent of Republicans and 30 percent of Independents felt the US was turning socialist state as compared with only 15 percent of Democrats.

The poll figures reportedly showed that a majority of Americans surveyed claimed that it should not be the government's role to redistribute wealth, and preferred "a smaller government providing less services."

Source-ANI


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