Middle America assails Washington machine as indifferent and ‘above us’

America has met the enemy, and it is Washington.

That was the message from a focus group of 11 Cincinnati-area voters, who issued a scathing and impassioned indictment Wednesday of Washington, D.C., and everyone in it — from lawmakers to the president and, most strikingly, a political system that makes them feel powerless to change it.

“They’re indicting the president, they’re indicting Congress,” said Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducted the two-hour session exclusively for the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with NBC News and The Wall Street Journal. CONT.

Carrie Dann, NBC News

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