Pollsters: 'Everything is terrible'

Politico ^ | 10 Aug 2014 | LUCY MCCALMONT

[mandaladon]

Polls from major networks, researchers and newspapers agree: America’s in a bad mood.

In just one week, polls found politicians of all stripes are hitting approval numbers with record lows. The president finds himself roughly as popular as a trip to the dentist. The entire Democratic Party gets the thumbs down. Oh, and so does the Republican Party.

But it doesn’t stop there. Americans are also bummed out about the future in general, especially the economy. Things are so low that even an old favorite, sugar, polled poorly.

(See the latest congressional polls from POLITICO's Polling Center)

Pollsters say it all adds up to a country that feels “everything is terrible,” as one put it, a mood that campaigns should consider as they head into the midterm homestretch, when turnout should be all about enthusiasm – not pessimism.

“With an ‘everything is terrible’ mindset, I’m mostly thinking about how after several years of cantankerous and unproductive lawmaking in Washington, there are very few political figures or institutions who the public trusts anymore,” the Washington Post’s polling analyst Scott Clement said in an interview.

When it comes to candidates, voters are also less than thrilled with both incumbents and their challengers.

“What we’re really seeing in an unprecedented way, especially in the key Senate races, is that voters don’t like either of the major candidates,” said Tom Jensen, the director of the left-leaning Public Policy Polling.

Jensen pointed to Arkansas, Louisiana, Alaska and North Carolina, where Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, remains ahead. However, Jensen said it’s not because of high approval ratings.

[meadsjn]

Without massive voter fraud, and cross-over fraud in Republican primaries:

• There would never have been presidents JFK, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, or odinga.
• The US House would never have had more than 35% Democrats since the time of JFK.
• The US Senate would not have had more than a couple dozen Democrats since the time of JFK.
• The US Senate would have only a handful of liberal Republican RINOs at any time.

[dfwgator]

Term limits is the only way to save the country.

Like the ones in Bucharest in 1989.

[eyedigress]

No worries. Obama has a gift.

[NormsRevenge]

maybe if we sacrificed a few of our party leaders to appease the climate Gods.. doing it for the childrun, yaknow.

Nanny, you first. Harry, Mitch..?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks mandaladon. Minnesota is looking better:

• Franken challenger: Dem-controlled Senate "land of 10,000 excuses" (voted best campaign slogan)
• Ron Paul: US ‘hiding truth’ on downed Malaysian plane>
• Ron Paul: Don't Palestinians Have a Right to Defend Themselves Too?

and other than him, things in Texas look good. Hawaii, , Wisconsin, NC, WV, MI etc are looking up

[quesney]

“I share such bleak views, but it arises more from seeing America so relatively unperturbed by such massive government corruption, as well as such a large portion of the country embracing such degeneracy as dope and fag-marriage. I no longer have any faith or confidence in the American people. And the more depraved the country becomes, the less interest I have in its preservation.”

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You really nailed it here. People around here keep throwing (paper) tomatoes at Obama and the Democrats. To a lesser extent at Romney and other Republicrats. What about the freaking electorate?

Some around here talk of a 2nd American revolution. Good luck with that. Tell me, exactly what would that look like? Many Americans have no understanding of the Constitution.
The US does not have the kind of historical memory and leadership of The Founders and the electorate does not have the kind of character and culture the general public in 1776 had.

We’re more likely to go full-retard Latino/Venezuela Banana Republic than restore the Constitution, given how depraved and degraded everything has become, including the military. Best we can hope for is an enlightened dictator like Pinochet in Chile that unilaterally imposes a solution on a reluctant, good-for-nothing public. I have less confidence things will be fixed from the ground up anymore, because the ground for the tree of liberty is no longer fertile in America. We have a few bright stars, like Palin, but she and many others, at the moment of truth take a pass and take the easier road. Just the same ‘ol, same ‘ol.

Very sad to say all this, but look around. G*d help us.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Obama—the anti-Reagan.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

romnuts would have been no better.He just marched a little slower down the same road as obummer.

[Ann Archy]

OMG....who is PURE enough in your sight to get elected?? Half of the country PAY NO TAXES and ARE CORRUPTED!!

[noprogs]

Read my tag line

[Rapscallion]

Progressives are trying to murder America. They have trashed every value we had. Morality: gone. Traditional marriage: gone. Education: gone. Truth: gone. Employment: gone. Jobs: gone.

[dfwgator]

[BlueStateRightist]

You’re correct. Tillis up in NC: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/senate/nc/north_carolina_senate_tillis_vs_hagan-3497.html

[Carry_Okie]

OMG....who is PURE enough in your sight to get elected??

There is a difference between 80% conservative propensities and 20% as represented by RINOs like Romney.

If you doubt the damage they do then you learned nothing about the damage done by Bush after Reagan or Wilson/Schwarzenegger in California after Deukmejian and Reagan. To the latter case, we now have total Slave Party dominance thanks to "electable" Republican nominees when we could have had a conservative Bill Simon in 2002 whom the Bush-appointed CA-GOP operatives stabbed in the back so deeply as to have destroyed the Party in that State, perhaps permanently.

How much more well disposed toward conservatives was Massachusetts after Romney's governance there? Did the people elect another Republican? Did he get re-elected? If you cannot say things improved, then your preference for his representation of marginal incrementalism doesn't stand.

[Justa]

Hoax-and-Chains^TM

[mrsmel]

I totally agree with your sister, and with you. I have been roundly and at length chastised by a Freeper for my pessimism, but he disregarded that my pessimism is limited in scope- it’s towards this nation and this world, but this thankfully, this world is not my home, and a real Millennium, predicted in a Book whose prophecies have a 100% score of accuracy, will be instituted in God’s good time. That’s all the optimism I need, it’s better and more lasting and more real than any trumped-up “rah rahing” for political parties/politicians/nations/etc on this earth which has already been prophesied to its final demise and rebirth under the Great and Just God. That’s much better than anything any flawed human can ever come up with, and much more worth my hope.

And strangely enough, almost all of the political people in my family and social circle (all staunch conservatives) have morphed to the same outlook and disinterest in current politics and affairs. It’s like we have to just get through this miasma by keeping our eyes on the Light of the World now.

[mrsmel]

I agree with this also. There will be no revolution by the people. They have been doped up, dumbed down, paid off, in every way unfitted to action or even self-sufficient to their own survival. They are ripe for the plucking by a great “charismatic” leader who will lead them into perdition. Obama has shown how easily this will happen, especially in his re-election.

[Ezekiel]

The word "holy" isn't necessarily an indication of saintliness (is that a word?), but designates that which is set aside - sanctified, as it were - for special use. Think of grandma's china verses the cheesy everyday chipware, a wedding dress verses a sundress, fine leather shoes verses Crocs, and so forth. Holy vs. profane (common)...could be a contrast of people, material objects, behavior, language...

Polls from major networks, researchers and newspapers agree: America’s in a bad mood.

In just one week, polls found politicians of all stripes are hitting approval numbers with record lows. The president finds himself roughly as popular as a trip to the dentist. The entire Democratic Party gets the thumbs down. Oh, and so does the Republican Party.

But it doesn’t stop there. Americans are also bummed out about the future in general, especially the economy. Things are so low that even an old favorite, sugar, polled poorly.

America is weary, run down, and demoralized. She is under attack from alien criminals, criminals in all branches of government, alien gibsmedat cultures, badge rage cops and other control freaks. Like Israel overrun with people who hate her and want her dead and suffering, America is a target-rich environment for demonic hordes.

No wonder America is in a bad mood.

Da 12.7. And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he lifted up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives for ever that it shall be for a time, two times, and half a time; and when the crushing of the power of the holy people shall have been completed, all these things shall be finished:

[left that other site]

Soon.

[Ezekiel]

From Wiki:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

This has been called "one of the best-known sentences in the English language",[6] containing "the most potent and consequential words in American history".[7] The passage came to represent a moral standard to which the United States should strive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

03372 yare' {yaw-ray'}

a primitive root; TWOT - 907,908; v

AV - fear 188, afraid 78, terrible 23, terrible thing 6, dreadful 5,
reverence 3, fearful 2, terrible acts 1, misc 8; 314

1) to fear, revere, be afraid
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to fear, be afraid
1a2) to stand in awe of, be awed
1a3) to fear, reverence, honour, respect
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be fearful, be dreadful, be feared
1b2) to cause astonishment and awe, be held in awe
1b3) to inspire reverence or godly fear or awe
1c) (Piel) to make afraid, terrify
2) (TWOT) to shoot, pour

'Everything is terrible'

A people, terrible from their beginning onward...