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Commission on Presidential Debates, Frank Fahrenkopf, Jr., Michael D BEFORE THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION In the Matter of Commission on Presidential Debates, Frank Fahrenkopf, Jr., Michael D. McCurry, Howard G. Buffett, John C. Danforth, John Griffen, Antonia Hernandez, John I. Jenkins, Newton N. Minow, Richard D. Parsons, Dorothy Ridings, Alan K. Simpson, and Janet Brown EXHIBITS TO COMPLAINT; VOLUME I EXHIBITS 1 - 55 SHAPIRO, ARATO & ISSERLES LLP 500 Fifth Avenue 40th Floor New York, New York 10110 Phone: (212)257-4880 Fax: (212)202-6417 Attorneys for Complainants Level the Playing Field and Peter Ackerman 4 4 5 I Exhibit 1 68% Think Election Rules Rigged for Incumbents jin Politics ' Sunday, July 13, 2014 More voters than ever now say U.S. elections are rigged to favor incumbents and are unfair to voters. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters now say American elections are not fair to voters, up from 46% in Aoriland the hiohest finding in survevs since '2004. Thirty-nine percent (39%) think elections are fair, but 14% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.) That could be in part because 68% think members of Congress nearly always get reelected, not ibecause they do a good job, but because elections are rigged to benefit incumbents. That, too, is up ifrom April and a new all-time high. Just nine percent (9%) think Congress members are reelected ibecause they do a good job representing their constituents. Twenty-three percent (23%) are not sure. The Declaration of Independence says that governments derive their authority from the consent of the governed, but just 19% of voters think the federal government today actually has that consent. Sixty- itwo percent (62%) do not think the federal government has the consent of the governed, while 19% are undecided. This is consistent with surveying for the past four years. Only seven percent (7%) of voters think the average representative in Congress listens to the voters Ihe or she represents the most, the most pessimistic finding yet, while 83% think representatives listen to party leaders in Congress the most. IFifty-two percent (52%) believe a random group of people selected from the phone book could do a ibetter job of running the country than the current Congress. This marks the first time that number has surpassed the 50% mark. One-in-three voters (30%) disagree, but 18% are undecided. (Want a free dailv e-mail update? If It's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook. The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on July 9-10, 2014 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research. LLC. See methodoloov. 1 Men are slightly more likely than women to believe that U.S. elections are fair to voters. But they're I jalso more likely to believe Congress members are reelected because the rules are rigged to benefit ithem and that a randomly selected group would do a better job. Forty-seven percent (47%) of Republicans and 44% of Democrats believe U.S. elections are fair, a view shared by only 26% of voters not affiliated with either major party. Republicans are slightly more likely than Democrats and unaffiliateds to believe Congress members iare reelected because they do a good job, though a majority still think it's because election rules are jrigged. Democrats, on the other hand, are nearly three times as likely as Republicans and unaffiliated voters 4 •to think the federal government has the consent of the governed. i i iNot surprisingly, most voters who believe elections are rigged to benefit congressional incumbents 'think elections are unfair. 4 6 8 Just eight oercent (8%^ of all voters rate Congress's overall performance as good or excellent, and only 25% think their local representative deserves to be reelected. Fiftv-four percent f54%J of voters expect the GOP to take control of the Senate this November, but no matter which party wins control of Congress, more than half of voters believe it will lead to a noticeable change in the lives of most Americans. ^Additional information from this survey and a full democraohic breakdown are available to Platinum ! IMembers only. Please sign up for the Rasmussen Reports dailv e-mail update (it's free) or follow us ion Twitter or Facebook. 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