While some of the Republican presidential candidates consistently suggest that the economy is the only first-tier issue in the upcoming election, the party is missing a tremendous opportunity to run against the Obama administration’s unprecedented amassing of power and money at the expense of Americans’ liberty — best exemplified, of course, by Obamacare. Moreover, while the economy could experience an uptick between, say, August and early November of next year, a newly released Rasmussen poll shows how running against Obamacare — and other gross excesses of federal power and spending — is a much more reliable course.  

The Rasmussen poll asked likely voters, “Does the federal government have too much power and money, too little power and money, or about the right amount of power and money?” By a tally of more than 7 to 1, Americans answered “too much” (64 percent), rather than “too little” (9 percent). Among independents, the tally was more than 9 to 1 (67 to 7 percent).