Posted on 08/08/2014 4:23:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
Two national opinion polls released over the last two days reflect a deeply frustrated and pessimistic American public. The new NBC/WSJ survey, which tracks President Obama's approval to an all-time low in the series (40/54) and shows a slight Republican edge heading into November's elections, is bursting at the seams with negativity:
(1) Right track/Wrong track is at an abysmal (22/71).
(2) By a 22-point margin, Americans say the country is in a state of decline. On the question of whether people believe that "life for our children's generation will be than it has been for us," respondents said they are "not confident" on that score by nearly a four-to-one margin.
(3) This whole chart:
(4) On another 'satisfaction' issue set, respondents gave negative marks to the US government's handling of a series of international crises. The most acute dissatisfaction was expressed over the border crisis, with featured a 53-point thumbs-down margin. A majority of Americans said they agreed that, "we do not have the resources to deal with the thousands of children who have entered the country illegally and they should be returned immediately."
A fresh Associated Press poll is just as bleak on virtually every count. Obama's approval is upside down (40/59) overall, and underwater on every single issue polled. He's in the 30's on many of them. His best number is on handling relationships with other countries, at (43/55). Voters split evenly between preferring Republicans or Democrats to control Congress after the elections. Fully one-third of respondents said it doesn't matter either way. Republicans held a "trust" edge on seven of the eight specific issues polled. Noah Rothman's conclusion upon surveying these numbers: "These are awful numbers for incumbent Democrats heading into the fall. And we haven’t even started applying likely voter screens yet." True, but I suspect Pete Wehner's take is more lasting in its relevance:
Whatever the causes–and there are many of them–it can’t be good when there’s such massive dissatisfaction with our political system. For one thing, we have urgent challenges that require a political system that works, that people have confidence in. Beyond that, though, our political system–the extraordinary handiwork of our founding generation–produced what Lincoln called an “inestimable jewel.” It is one of the main reasons we revere our country. Sustained contempt for our political system is corrosive. It undermines our affections for America. And unless it is reversed, it will find increasingly disturbing outlets and end up doing durable damage to the nation we love.
America is in the grips of a crisis of confidence, and most people don't see a light at the end of the tunnel at the moment.
Looks like we need another “Morning in America”. It’s been 35 years now so my memory is a little fuzzy, but it really does feel to me like it’s the late 70’s. At least Jimmy Carter had the historic agreement between Anwar Sadat and Menachim Began to hang his foreign policy hat on. Obama does not have one significant foreign policy achievement. Get us out of Iraq? Yeah, now the country is falling apart. He’ll be getting us out of Afghanistan. Just wait for two years from now and I’m sure the Afghani version of ISIS (a newly formed Taliban) will be showing up, cutting off heads and taking that country over...
“People get the kind of government they deserve.” (My late father)
I wish he could quit posting that the @$$hat’s picture on every damn thread. I am sick of looking at the POS.
Cheers!! to all the people that sat at home on election day..
Isn’t that the truth? The day that jag-off was sworn in, my wife and I agreed to either change channels or shut off the set anytime he came on air. Subsequently, the number of four letter words and tension in our household has dropped off.
It behooves the Makers to make less so that the Takers are cut off their parasitic dependency. There are individual choices as to how to accomplish this…cut back on discretionary spending saving sales taxes, work less hours, hire an accountant to cut your taxes, give more to church or charities…in Reagan’s words, “starve the beast.”
I expect America to start recovery after the November election day.
Failing that, I will seriously begin to wonder what happened to my country...
I thought that in 2012. All you McCain and Romney haters out there, look what you've done.
FR promoted that very event.
Ahhh....... but they are sanctimoniously pure in heart. Their own self esteem matters more than America
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H. L. Mencken
and thanks in advance to those that will
I agree that a good election in less than 3 months will be the beginning of a dramatic turn around.Let’s be very active and pray a lot.
You are as disgusting as you are dishonest.
It was not McCain or Romney’s position to remove US troops from Iraq. Both of them warned against it and said it would destabilize and imperil Iraq. It was the democrats’ and Obama’s platform to remove the troops for the sake of sound bites and more money available for their cronies. Their’s and Al Qaeda in Iraq -and apparently your’s too.
Take a bow. You set this up and continue to condone it to this day as is evident by your projection onto Republicans who sought to prevent this.
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