Poll: Four in 10 Americans distrust political system

By Joel Gehrke

Published May 28, 2016 4:57pm ET

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Poll: Four in 10 Americans distrust political system — Sunlight shines through a window onto a voting booth at a polling place inside Winfield Elementary School in Windsor Mill, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) | Patrick Semansky

Almost four out of every 10 Americans have “hardly any” trust in the U.S. political system, according to new national survey

“Americans express middling levels of confidence in political institutions and procedures,” an Associated Press poll of 1,060 people nationwide shows. “Only 1 in 10 have a great deal of confidence in the political system of the United States while about half have some confidence and nearly 4 in 10 have hardly any confidence.”

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