Pew, 78% of Americans say no to big government-AP

AP: ""The government's been lying to people for years. Politicians make promises to get elected, and when they get elected, they don't follow through," says Cindy Wanto, 57, a

• registered Democrat from Nemacolin, Pa., who joined several thousand for a rally in Washington on April 15 —

the tax filing deadline. "There's too much government in my business. It was a problem before Obama, but he's certainly not helping fix it."...

• Nearly 80 percent of Americans say they can't (trust Washington) and they have little faith that the massive federal bureaucracy can solve the nation's ills, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center that shows public confidence in the federal government

at one of the lowest points in a half-century.

The poll released Sunday illustrates the ominous situation facing President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party as they struggle to maintain their comfortable congressional majorities in this fall's elections. Midterm prospects are typically tough for the party in power. Add a toxic environment like this and lots of incumbent Democrats could be out of work."...

• "Poll: 78 percent don't trust big government," 4/18/10