The country isn't happy under Bush (according to Gallup, Pew, Assoc Press)

[Bucky]

I was about to say "Numbers don't lie" but of course numbers really do lie all the time. Nonetheless, polls measuring overall satisfaction and "wrong/right track" perceptions are looking pretty bad. I'm not just comparing them to where we were and how we were feeling during the Clinton boom years. We're feeling worse overall compared to how we were since the 9/11 attacks, since the worst of the Bush recession, and since just a few months ago.

According to the irreplaceable Polling Report.com,
Pew asks "Do you think things in this country are generally going in the right direction or are they seriously off on the wrong track?"
In March '03, only 36% say "right track" vs. 55% saying "wrong track". That's down from the 55% "right" vs 33% "wrong-trackers" last April. Their previous all time low for "right direction" was in January '03 when 39% said things suck.


NBC/WSJ found the wrong track number at 49%, up from 43% in January.

Associated Press has "wrong track" at 60% compared to 52% in February and 46% in January. That's their highest wrong track number in all the Bush years and this was before the Clarke revelations came out.

The Gallup poll says 60% of the country is dissatisfied compared to 39% of the country being satisfied. The chart below of Gallup's tracking of this figure shows we've always been a bit uneasy since Bush has been in office. He frequently gets a bounce from the occasional spectacular news--like the troops getting Saddam or everyone waking up after 9/11 to just how damn lucky we are to live in this country. But overall, he's making the country a suckier place to be.



The moral to this story? Vote Kerry and make America suck less.

[Paragon]

1. Country?

;-)

[Bucky]

5. oops, thanks

I accidently typed "county" instead of country. Now it's fixed. But technically most people in my county are unhappy about Bush too.

[Jacobin]

2. I wonder

If there was a comparable tracking graph of this sentiment in the same time period of King George I's reign.

T'would be interesting to compare father and spawn.

[Jacobin]

3. Kick

For the late risers.

[RainDog]

4. It is glaringly obvious to me

that the republicans, with the exception of the veneer (tho not substance) of Ronald Reagan, consistently work to make as many people as possible miserable.

this is one area in which they have been consistently successful.

Clinton won re-election, in a clear rebuke to the Sciafe/Coulter/Starr thugs...yet they didn't care.

Bush did not win a mandate, yet he set out to enact a radical right agenda which the majority of Americans DID NOT AND DO NOT WANT.

...but that hasn't stopped him.

He has consistently pandered to a small minority of people to enrich their already fat coffers at the expense of the rest of us, the general welfare, and he has worked non-stop to force a theocratic agenda on a diverse American population.

Is it any wonder that so many people not only dislike and distrust him, but truly detest him?

He has earned that disdain.