A more important question is "How passionately do you disapprove?" For example, even though most Americans believe in tougher gun restrictions, it's not a high

A more important question is "How passionately do you disapprove?" For example, even though most Americans believe in tougher gun restrictions, it's not a high priority in how they vote. That meant politicians weren't going to spend any of their political capital fighting for that issue. I suspect privacy isn't a major voting issue with many Americans, so this number is probably even weaker in terms of swaying politicians. It's politically easier for a politician to be strong on security with spying than to stand up for privacy and later have it revealed that information about an attack could have been known through these spying methods. Edit: topic clarification and paragraph structure.