Obama Up Against American people’s anti-government mood

The L.A. Times reports:

A spate of recent polls has found that faith in the federal government has sunk to near-record lows. In one survey, only 22% of those polled said they trust the federal government to do the right thing most of the time. More people said the federal government has a negative impact on their lives than said it has a positive one. Even relatively popular agencies such as the Defense Department and the Social Security Administration have seen their standings slip.

The last time those numbers sank so low was 1994, when then- President Clinton's Democrats ran into trouble with voters over healthcare. In case you've forgotten what happened in that year's congressional election, it was a Republican landslide.

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