Public Not So Hot on Unlimited Surveillance State

Or so says a CBS poll on the vast NSA/FISA/PRISM monitoring program. Republicans and Independents were pretty strongly against the government reading their emails and seizing their phone records. Democrats, on the other hand, were evenly split; evidently half of them do want Big Brother monitoring their every move…at least when the person in the White House has a (D) after their name.

A less granular Pew poll show more support for the NSA being able to “monitor everyone’s email. Like any poll (much less a Pew poll), I’d take it with a large grain of salt, especially given how ridiculously over-weighted with Democrats this poll is:

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