Only 22% of Likely U.S. Voters Say Country is Heading in Right Direction

Just 22% of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction, the lowest level of confidence found since before President Obama’s inauguration in January 2009.

 

According to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, March 13, 72% of voters now say the country is heading down the wrong track, also at its highest level since before the inauguration.

 

Support for repeal of the national health care law, passed by congressional Democrats a year ago, stands at 62%, the highest level since May of last year. The number of voters who believe the plan will increase the cost of care has tied its highest level since the law’s passage last March. 

 

Only one-out-of-three (33%) workers nationwide expect to earn more money a year from now, marking the lowest level of optimism in nearly two years.

 

While the economy keeps stumbling along, voters continue to express little confidence in government as the solution. 

 

From:  http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/right_direction_or_wrong_track

64% of Americans Say US is on Wrong Track; Obama Approval Ratings Among Independent Voters Plunges

(Reuters) – Americans’ confidence in the way the country is going has slumped to a two-year low in the last month, and one pollster blamed soaring gas prices.

 

A Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Wednesday the proportion of people who believe the United States is on the wrong track rose seven points to 64 percent from February, in a fresh challenge to President Barack Obama.

 

It was the highest number of people in an Ipsos poll who think the country on the wrong track since Obama took office in January 2009. The survey comes as many indicators show an improving U.S. economy.

 

OBAMA’S 2012 CHANCES

 

Obama’s approval among independent voters who he will need for his 2012 re-election drive took a sharp dive, to 37 percent from 47 percent, the poll found.

 

Independents fled Democrats in congressional elections last November, enabling Republicans to win the House of Representatives and make gains in the Senate.

 

In speeches with an eye on re-election, Obama has been talking up the need for compromise in Washington, the kind of rhetoric that appeals to independents.

 

“There are going to be times where we’ve got to try to find common ground to solve problems. Not everything is a fight. Not everything has to be a battle to the death,” he told a Boston fund-raiser on Tuesday.

 

From:  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/09/us-obama-poll-idUSTRE7284SZ20110309

Only 23% of Voters Feel U.S. Is Heading in the Right Direction

Just 23% of likely U.S. voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, December 12. Down three points from last week, it’s the most pessimistic finding since January 2009.

 

 Confidence that the country is moving in the right direction is down to 42% among Democrats from 59% the week before Election Day.

 

 Among all voters, confidence in the nation’s current course had been hovering around the 30% mark since last November except for a brief burst of enthusiasm, largely among Democratic voters, just after Congress’ passage of the national health care bill in late March.

 

 Seventy percent (71%) of voters say the country now is heading down the wrong track, the highest level found since March. Following passage of the health care bill, this number fell slightly but has since returned to levels found prior to the passage of the bill.

 

 Forty-nine percent (49%) of those in President Obama’s party feel the country is on the wrong track.  Eighty-nine percent (89%) of Republicans and 76% of voters not affiliated with either political party agree.

 

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http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/right_direction_or_wrong_track