Americans are more likely to name the government as the most important problem facing the nation than any other issue. However, they were more likely to name the government as the top problem at points in the past. And it is pretty clear that when Americans think about government as the top problem, they are talking about specific personalities that inhabit government today and the broad way in which the elected representatives that direct the government are going about their business — and not so much about the bureaucracy of government or its size and power. CONT.
Frank Newport, Gallup