WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — A new Gallup survey shows that three in four Americans viewed corruption as rife in the U.S. government last year.
Although the percentage was four points lower than that in 2013, when 79 percent of Americans held such perception, it still represented the second highest number in the past seven years, said the survey.
While the numbers fluctuated since 2007, the percentage of Americans who see corruption as pervasive had never dropped under 70 percent with the exceptions in 2007 and 2009, when about two in three Americans held such perception, the survey showed.