It’s not just the Tea Partiers and Town Hall  crowds who are fed up with government. Three of ever four voters are angry at the federal government’s policies, according to a new Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday:

Part of the frustration is likely due to the belief of 60% of voters that neither Republican political leaders nor Democratic political leaders have a good understanding of what is needed today. That finding is identical to the view last September, just after the tumultuous congressional town hall meetings the month before. But only 52% felt this way in November.

Americans are united in the belief “that the political system is broken, that most politicians are corrupt, and that neither major political party has the answers,” Scott Rasmussen explains in his new book, In Search of Self-Governance.

Not surprisingly, 89 percent of Republicans are angry with the government’s current policies. More sobering than that statistic are the poll’s findings that 78 percent of independent voters agree, as do 61 percent of Democrats.

Rasmussen also found that the split between mainstream voters and political leaders is more sharply defined than ever:

Eighty-eight percent (88%) of Mainstream voters are angry, but 84% of the Political Class are not. Those numbers include 57% of Mainstream voters who are Very Angry and 51% of the Political Class who are not angry at all.

But then 68% of Mainstream voters don’t think the leaders of either major political party have a good understanding of what the country needs today. Sixty-one percent (61%) of the Political Class disagree.

Among specific government policies opposed by most voters are ObamaCare and bailouts of the financial and automobile industries. Voter opinions of the February economic stimulus plan are mixed.

49 percent of voters are concerned that the federal government will try to do too much to help the economy, and 59 percent believe cutting taxes is better than increasing government spending to create jobs. Fully 72 percent say they expect the president and Congress will increase spending instead.

- JP

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