Majority Think Bloated Big Brother is a Threat to Individual Freedom

In a CNN poll of 1,023 people, 56% (37% of Democrats, 63% of Independents and 70% of Republicans ) said they thought the federal government had become so large and powerful that it now posed an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of citizens. 44% saw no threat but 86% of all Americans think that the U.S. government is "broken." http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/21/poll.broken.govt/index.html