Wednesday, June 29, 2022

A Sour Public Mood

The Associated Press isn't known for being friendly to conservatives, in spite of which the Daily Mail (U.K.) runs an AP story concerning a public opinion survey of Americans. Here are the key 'graphs:

Eighty-five percent of U.S. adults say the country is on the wrong track, and 79 percent describe the economy as poor, according to a new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Even among Democrats, 67 percent call economic conditions poor.

The poll shows only 39 percent of Americans approve of Biden's leadership overall, while 60 percent disapprove.

The national dissatisfaction is bipartisan, the poll shows. Ninety-two percent of Republicans and 78 percent of Democrats say the country is headed in the wrong direction. Since last month, the percentage of Democrats saying the country is headed in the wrong direction rose from 66 percent.

I give the AP credit for running a story that can't have been popular in their newsroom. Perhaps we'll have results we like in early November when the midterm ballots are counted. The way we defeat vote rigging is to win so big the rigging doesn't matter.