An overwhelming 64 percent of people surveyed said big government was the biggest threat to the country

Fear of crushing government power has reached the record levels of the Clinton years.

"An overwhelming 64 percent of people surveyed said big government was the biggest threat to the country", "The all-time high for percentage of people who said big government was the biggest threat to the country was in 1999 and 2000, when 65 percent named it the country’s biggest menace."

he Gallup poll was conducted Nov. 28-Dec. 1 among 1,012 adults ages 18 and older, and has an error of margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.