More than a third of the U.S. public suspects that federal officials either assisted in 9/11 or took no action to stop it so that the U.S. could go to war in the Middle East.

 Seventy-seven percent of the respondants in Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll said that their friends and acquantances have become angrier with the government recently and 54% say that they have become angrier; the highest the numbers have been since Scripps Howard began asking the question in 1995.

How this plays out in November is difficult to predict, but there is certainly fertile ground for new answers, new politicians, and new parties.