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What with Glenn Beck and the Tea Potheads, you'd think that Americans are revolting against a "Big Government" that has smothered their lives. Turns out, however, that a less biased reading of the polls finds that people want a more responsive government and not the one they believe they have: a state captured by "Big Interests." Political psychologist, Stephen Kull, Director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, recently appraised the data carefully and recognized much more nuance in public opinion than the media suggests. Below we run his piece, "Big Government is Not the Issue" from WorldPublicOpinion.org.

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