Gallup polls now show that most Americans believe that economic opportunity is more important than soaking the rich, small business has the best answers on job creation – and Big Government is a far greater threat than Big Business.

With President Obama still on the loose touting Big Government solutions - and Big Government tax-and-spending - at every turn, fear of Big Government has risen to a near-record level, reports Gallup:

"Americans' concerns about the threat of big government continue to dwarf those about big business and big labor, and by an even larger margin now than in March 2009. The 64% of Americans who say big government will be the biggest threat to the country is just one percentage point shy of the record high, while the 26% who say big business is down from the 32% recorded during the recession."

The percentage of Americans viewing Big Government as the biggest threat facing the country (rather than Big Business or Big Labor)  has risen from 53% just before Obama was inaugurated to 64% today - one point off the record of 65% reached in the latter years of Bill Clinton's presidency, according to Gallup.

And fear of Big Government is rising fastest among Democrats, says Gallup: “Democrats Lead Increase in Concern About Big Government”

“Almost half of Democrats now say big government is the biggest threat to the nation, more than say so about big business, and far more than were concerned about big government in March 2009. The 32% of Democrats concerned about big government at that time -- shortly after President Obama took office -- was down significantly from a reading in 2006, when George W. Bush was president. By contrast, 82% of Republicans and 64% of independents today view big government as the biggest threat, slightly higher percentages than Gallup found in 2009."

This is heartening news, since liberals are wired to view government as a positive force and business with suspicion, while conservatives are wired the opposite way. Perhaps Obama's massive Big Government overreach has finally resonated with some moderate Democrats who aren't sold on the liberal view of government as a positive force.

The poll is not the only recent survey whose results suggests Obama's soak-the-rich class warfare demagoguery and anti-business policies are likely to hurt him with voters in 2012.

On Friday, Gallup released a survey showing that more "Americans say it is important that the federal government enact policies that grow the economy and increase equality of opportunity than say the same about reducing the income and wealth gap between the rich and the poor."

And, last Thursday, Gallup released another survey showing that fewer Americans see the country as divided into "haves" and "have nots," and, most hearteningly, a majority would consider themselves to be in the "haves" category if they had to choose.

In November, a Gallup survey asked Americans who they trusted most on the issue of job creation. Their answer: Small-business owners and local business leaders. And, said Gallup, "Americans have progressively lower levels of trust in the opinions of President Obama, economists, major-corporation executives, congressional leaders, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

So... most Americans believe that increasing economic opportunity is more important than knocking the rich down a peg or two. And most believe small business has the best answers on job creation - and distrust Big Government far more than Big Business.

And, they’ve come to this conclusion following years of the biggest-spending, most interventionist, meddling, regulatory government in modern history.

What’s more, ever hopeful and optimistic - as if it’s in our national DNA or something - most Americans believe they are part of the "haves" rather than the "have nots," even after a crushing recession.

Three years into his economic experiment of injecting a massive dose of Big Government spending, regulation and intervention into the economy, the economy remains essentially flat.

If President Obama was trying to convince Americans that business was the problem and Big Government was the solution, he has utterly failed.

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