{"id":328278,"date":"2010-02-16T14:52:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T19:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=32650"},"modified":"2010-02-16T14:52:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T19:52:43","slug":"a-halfway-movement-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/328278","title":{"rendered":"A Halfway Movement Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Gary Howard<\/p>\n

According to a Rasmussen poll<\/a>, 59% of likely voters favor allowing states to opt out of federal programs they disagree with.<\/p>\n

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Voters strongly believe that a state should have the right to avoid federal programs it doesn’t like, but they draw the line at states seceding from the union.<\/p>\n

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of likely voters say states should have the right to opt out of federal government programs they don’t agree with. Just 25% disagree, while another 15% are not sure. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The growing popularity of ideas like state nullification (i.e. opting out) is a good thing. However, some folks aren’t ready to make the next leap.<\/p>\n

From the same poll:<\/p>\n

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But despite the rise of so-called “Tea Party” anti-federal government sentiment around the country, there’s no second Civil War at hand. Only 14% of voters think individual states have the right to leave the United States and form an independent country. Seventy-two percent (72%) do not believe states have this right, and 13% more are undecided.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One can probably attribute this anti-secession sentiment to inferior public education, and the lack of serious civic and constitutional study that entails.<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, lets hope more people come over to the side of freedom, and more state legislatures start exercising their power against the feds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Gary Howard According to a Rasmussen poll, 59% of likely voters favor allowing states to opt out of federal programs they disagree with. Voters strongly believe that a state should have the right to avoid federal programs it doesn’t like, but they draw the line at states seceding from the union. A new Rasmussen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}