Barack Obama is facing an anti-Big Government revolution

By Nile Gardiner World
Last updated: November 9th, 2011
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Three major polls this week will give a jittery White House cause for concern. The first, from ABC News/Washington Post http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/20 ... -election/ shows a significant rise in public anger towards the federal government. The second, from The Wall Street Journal/ NBC, http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/11/0 ... _news_blog shows overwhelming disillusionment with President Obama’s handling of the economy. The third, from Gallup, has conservatives in America now outnumbering liberals by a two-to-one margin. http://www.gallup.com/poll/150611/Democ ... -2008.aspx

Taken as a whole, this week’s polls paint a picture of a country that is emphatically rejecting the Big Government experiment of the past few years, and turning more and more towards conservatism. The surveys are representative of a sea of polls revealing a deep-seated and mounting opposition to the highly interventionist economic policies of the current US administration, with the latest RealClear Politics average of polls showing 73 per cent of Americans believing the country is moving down the “wrong trackâ€