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POLL DU JOUR

• 76 percent of U.S. voters say the IRS “deliberately destroyed” employee emails related to the agency’s targeting of conservative and tea party groups.

• 90 percent of Republicans, 63 percent of Democrats and 74 percent of independents agree.

• 12 percent overall think the emails were “accidentally destroyed”; 90 percent of Republicans, 63 percent of Democrats and 74 percent of independents agree.

• 74 percent of voters overall say Congress should continue to investigate the IRS matter; 86 percent of Republicans, 66 percent of Democrats and 65 percent of independents agree.

• 60 percent overall do not believe President Obama’s claims that he learned of the IRS targeting, “Fast and Furious” and other matters from news media accounts; 73 percent of Republicans, 44 percent of Democrats and 68 percent of independents also don’t believe Mr. Obama.

• 31 percent overall believe that Mr. Obama heard of these issues through the media; 21 percent of Republicans, 42 percent of Democrats and 25 percent of independents agree.

Source: A Fox News poll of 1,018 registered U.S. voters conducted June 21-23.

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