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Poll: Democrats suddenly believe in limits on federal power

By Philip Wegmann
Published February 16, 2017 1:46pm ET
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Poll: Democrats suddenly believe in limits on federal power
"Over the past decade, we've argued in court in favor of administrative latitude in decision-making. Now, by asserting the primacy of states' rights, we're flipping that argument on its head," former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer recently wrote. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File) | Tina Fineberg

We’re all federalists now. Well, sort of. New polling shows Democrats have undergone a change of heart about federal power.

When Hillary Clinton had the White House on lock last July, 62 percent of Democrats told Gallup they thought power should be placed in the federal government. A month after President Trump took the job, according to a Huffington Post poll, that number dropped to 27 percent.

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