Eighty-six percent (86%) of voters nationwide say there should be “limits on what the federal government can do.” A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only nine percent (9%) believe the federal government should be allowed to do most anything in this country.

These views are overwhelming shared across virtually all partisan and demographic lines.

59 per cent of respondents believe the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo boosted anti-American sentiment in the world and despite a majority who felt "harsh Interrogation techniques" were necessary to prevent another terrorist attack, 51 per cent would launch an official investigation to review whether any laws were broken in the way terrorism suspects were treated under the Bush administration...

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