A lot of people will have a lot of reactions to this poll asking Americans what institutions they have confidence in. The thing I noticed: The military, No. 1 at 47 percent (of Americans having a "great deal" of confidence in it); The White House, which directs the military, in the middle of the pack at 25 percent; and the press, which has been unrelentingly negative in its coverage of both, in the bottom five at 14 percent. And, of course, there is the fact that no institution get a "great deal" of confidence from a majority of Americans.
