These polling questions don't typically distinguish between federal and state governments. They ask whether some policy is approved of (usually with the implicit understanding that it will be free to the voter). The author's proposition that if 2/3 of the voters want something, they should get it is the road to chaos, because "it" is never precisely defined, and the concrete consequences are never made clear. Democracy is good for picking representatives, and not great at that but better than a monarchy.