Although the page Cory linked to makes it look like 49% find spying on American citizens is acceptable and 47% say unacceptable, if you look at the breakdown for the U.S. specifically, you’ll see that those numbers are actually for monitoring of other countries’ citizens. However, when asked if it is acceptable for American monitoring of American citizens, 61% said unacceptable, and 37% said acceptable.
That makes a lot more sense. Looks like Pew got a bit mixed up since Americans were the only ones asked about other countries’ citizens.
