Posted on 02/06/2025 6:53:31 PM PST by Red Badger
Americans are as dissatisfied as ever with conditions in the U.S., according to an annal Gallup survey conducted shortly before President Trump's return to the White House.
Why it matters: Trump took office last month at a time of persistent pessimism among Americans, with an average satisfaction score across key elements of U.S. life hovering at just 38%.
That record low average has not budged since 2022.
The results, released Wednesday, also reflect Gallup's findings that Americans are generally unhappy about the direction the country is going.
By the numbers: Across 31 issue areas, Americans were most dissatisfied with the country's efforts to deal with poverty and homelessness.
Just 22% said they were satisfied with the "moral and ethical climate" of the U.S.
The other side:
Respondents were mostly satisfied with five of the 31 areas Gallup asked about — including the nation's military strength, overall quality of life and the acceptance of gay and lesbian people in the country.
The intrigue:
Only one issue area garnered a majority of satisfaction from both sides of the political aisle: The overall quality of life in the country.
But the percentage of respondents who said they were satisfied with quality of life has still dropped by roughly 18 percentage points since 2017.
Republicans and Democrats were both pessimistic about 17 issues — including abortion policy, race relations and health care quality and affordability.
The bottom line:
Americans expressed less satisfaction across most key issues in January 2025 than they did in January 2017, ahead of Trump's first term.
Partisan perspectives will continue to shift with Trump in office — with Republicans' outlook brightening and Democrats' satisfaction slumping further, according to Gallup.
Methodology: Results are based on telephone interviews conducted January 2-15, 2025, with a random sample of –1,005— adults, ages 18+, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on this sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
Its gona take a Herculean 180 from the last 4 years.
I’m pretty happy with the current state of events.
A lot has happened since then. Useless information
Axios was started by the creators of Politico. Politico was given $$$$$$$$ by The Deep State.
That’s all on Biden/Harris.
“...telephone interviews conducted January 2-15, 2025...”
Axios’ days are numbered without the USAID subsidies.
Yes, this was the last days of Biden’s regime.
They should do another poll exactly like it in a month..................
They want to make it sound like people are dissatisfied with Trump.
I bet the results would be much different if they did it now.
“before President Trump’s return to the White House”
Uh, YEAH, morons. Trump wasn't in until January 20th!
Axios is nothing more than a CIA / USAID propaganda organ.
They exist only to lie and push extreme leftist ideologies and do this by defrauding US taxpayers.
Nothing the write is to be taken with any seriousness.
It went up bigly on January 20.
I think that is their point. As bad as it was for Dems, it only got worse. They had no chance. Nothing in Biden’s term budged people’s opinions.
Push polling. The questions they asked are of concern only to Democrat activists.
Must have polled those lazy federal employees, who will soon be unemployed, and the screaming 🐀🐀🐀 in both chambers!
survey conducted shortly before President Trump’s return to the White House.“
They run this now to fool their clueless readers the headline makes it sound like they took the poll today
If it made the President look good you’d never hear of it.
Now that I think about it, this is a trash poll done to combat Trumps wildly high approval ratings.
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