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Poll says 37% back protesters

WASHINGTON — Most Americans say politics makes them angry.

But that doesn’t mean there is wide support for the Wall Street protests against the nation’s power brokers.

The latest Associated Press-GfK poll shows that 37 percent of people do back the protests that have spread from New York to cities across the country.

But more Americans — 58 percent — say they are furious about the country’s politics than did in January, when 49 percent said they felt that way.

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