Condemning Big Business, But Lauding the Small Sort

While Americans often display more fealty to consumer brands than to their elected representatives, this doesn’t dampen their suspicion of big business as a political force. A new Harris poll finds 86 percent of adults saying big companies have too much power and influence in Washington. Just 5 percent said the same of small business. (No wonder so many mega-corporations market brands that pretend to come from mom-and-pop companies.) Political action committees that fund candidates fared marginally better than big business, with 83 percent of the respondents saying PACs wield too much influence.