Gallup: Obama Has Driven Americans’ Fear of Government to Record High

"Since 1965, Gallup has asked Americans to identify “the biggest threat to the country” among three options: big government, big business and big labor. In that nearly 50-year span, presidents and other federal officials have provided innumerable reasons to distrust the government, from the way in which the Vietnam War was conducted to Watergate to Jimmy Carter’s domestic and foreign debacles to recessions.
Today, a remarkable 72% of Americans rate big government as the nation’s greatest threat. In contrast, despite five years of an administration that has demonized and scapegoated private enterprise, just 21% list big business as the greatest threat, with only 5% listing big labor.
Obama has accomplished something even beyond the capability of Ronald Reagan, America’s most accomplished post-war president. Namely, to convince a record number of Americans that, in Reagan’s words, “government isn’t the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” If Obama could’ve chosen an area in which he proved more successful than Reagan, that probably wouldn’t be it."

[link to cfif.org]

Maybe the aren't quite as uninformed as we were thinking. Do I see a glimmer of hope in these numbers?