Poll finds scant faith in US system

Americans enter 2014 with a profoundly negative view of their government, expressing little hope that elected officials can or will solve the nation’s biggest problems, a new poll has found.

Half say America’s system of democracy needs either “a lot of changes” or a complete overhaul, according to the poll by the AP-NORC Centre for Public Affairs Research. Just one in 20 says it works well and needs no changes.