More than 8 in 10 Americans agree: U.S. is definitely on the wrong track
11/02/2015 / By usafeaturesmedia
(Freedom.news) No matter which party they identify with – or if they don’t identify with one at all – a new survey indicates that the vast majority of Americans see the country barreling down the wrong track, a huge indictment of the Obama Administration.
As reported by The Washington Examiner, the WND/Clout Research survey found that fully 85 percent – more than 8 in 10 Americans – believe as much.
The poll of about 800 likely voters found that just nine of 100 Republicans and 15 of 100 Independents think the country is on the right track. More than half of Democrats – the president’s party (51.9 percent) think we’ve taken a turn for the worse, has have 83.9 percent of Independents and 87.4 percent of Republicans.
Despite enjoying a president from their own party, only 44 of 100 Democrats in the survey said they believe the U.S. “is on the right track.”
“The latest WND.com/Clout Research survey shows that the dramatic dissatisfaction that Republican voters toward the Obama administration since early in his first term has spread to include all of Washington,” Fritz Wenzel, a partner at Clout Research, said in a statement that accompanied the results.
The WE further reported:
In the same poll, 92.6 percent of respondents who described themselves as conservative disapproved of the direction of the country while 90.9 percent of respondents who described themselves as liberal shared the same belief.
Overall, 80 percent of respondents described the current state of the economy as “very fragile” or “somewhat fragile” after seven years of President Obama’s economic policies.
Obama is unquestionably the most progressive president in modern history, so it’s understandable that his popularity among conservatives is low.
However, when a majority of voters in a president’s own party are unhappy with his performance, that’s a big deal.
These results coincide with other recent surveys indicating that most Americans believe the federal government is the biggest threat to their sovereignty and freedom.
What’s more, there is ample justification for the angst; from federal agency overreaction as in the case of Cliven Bundy in Nevada and the government’s inability to punish wrongdoing, as in the case of refusing to hold anyone accountable for the IRS’ abuse of conservative non-profit groups in the run-up to the 2012 elections and since, there are plenty of reasons for Americans to believe their own government threatens them the most.
“The percentage of U.S. adults who see corruption as pervasive has never been less than a majority in the past decade, which has had no shortage of controversies from the U.S. Justice Department’s firings of U.S. attorneys to the IRS scandal,” Gallup reported.
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