IRS Targeting Was Intentional Effort To Punish Political Opponents, Say Most Americans

Well, duh

Two-thirds of American voters (66 percent) think the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups as part of a high-level operation to punish political opponents.  Far fewer—23 percent—think it was a mistake by a handful of lower-level IRS employees.

That's according to a just-released Fox News poll.  

Even Democrats, by a seven percentage-point margin, are more likely to think the targeting was a punitive measure ordered by higher-ups.  

In addition, most voters continue to believe the Obama administration knew about (40 percent) or was directly involved in (28 percent) the IRS treating conservative groups unfairly.