"The Right's best community organizer"

Posted by Rick Henderson at 12:50 PM

Is how National Review Editor Rich Lowry characterizes President Obama in his latest syndicated column. Rich cites this polling data, which should open some eyes:

According to Gallup, 57 percent of Americans say government is trying to do too many things best left to the private sector. More Americans (45 percent) say there is too much business regulation rather than too little (24 percent). It’s the worst showing for regulation ever in a Gallup survey. “However, a March 1981 Los Angeles Times poll using this question wording recorded a 54 percent ‘too much’ level,” Gallup explains. “This was just after Ronald Reagan took office, and may have reflected Reagan’s emphasis during the 1980 presidential campaign on the need to reduce government involvement in American society.”

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