BY WILLIAM YARDLEY
To hear members of the Bundy family and other armed occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon tell it, they are the brave leading edge, a handful of people willing to act on a widely held belief that the federal government has gone too far in its control and regulation of public lands.
Yet a bipartisan poll released Monday suggests that there is hardly a groundswell of support for many of the ideas the occupiers have proposed, including turning over federal lands to state and local governments or to private owners...