Most Americans want a special prosecutor to investigate possible abuses at the Internal Revenue Service, according to a new poll.
The Quinnipiac University national poll says respondents support an IRS special prosecutor by 76% to 17%, including 63%-30% among Democrats.
Congressional Republicans and the Justice Department are currently investigating the IRS targeting of conservative groups over their tax-exempt status. Officials with the White House and President Obama's re-election campaign have denied knowledge of the IRS activities.
"Voters apparently don't like the idea of Attorney General Eric Holder investigating the matter himself, perhaps because they don't exactly think highly of him," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "Holder gets a negative 23-39% job approval rating."
The Obama administration is also contending with allegations surrounding the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, and the Justice Department seizure of reporters' records during national security leak investigations.
According to Quinnipiac, most Americans believe that the IRS case is the most serious.
Said the poll: "Of the three controversies, 44% of voters see the IRS probe as the most important, with 24% citing Benghazi and 15% picking the AP records seizure."
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