• Among Christians, the Gallup poll found that Protestants are more likely to express confidence in the church compared to Catholics.
  • Confidence in the church or organized religion has dropped from 53 percent in 2004 to 39 percent today among Catholics.
  • Among Protestants, confidence increased from 60 percent in 2004 to 63 percent in 2006 and then dropped to 57 percent today.
• What Americans expressed the most confidence in was the military, with 69 percent saying they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence.
• Americans are also more likely to have confidence in small business (59 percent) and the police (54 percent) than the church.
• The largest drops in confidence between 2006 and 2007 are seen in ratings for banks (41 percent), the presidency (25 percent), television news (23 percent) and newspapers (22 percent).
• Americans show the least confidence in Congress with only 14 percent – the lowest in Gallup's history – expressing confidence.

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