For First Time Under Obama, Majority Says U.S. Is on Wrong Track

Politics Daily ^ | October 27, 2009 | Bruce Drake

[Zakeet]

While the stock market has picked up and the country appears to be pulling out of the recession, a majority of Americans - for the first time in the Obama presidency - says the U.S. is headed down the wrong track, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll conducted Oct. 22-25.

Fifty-two percent say the country is on the wrong track compared to 36 percent who say it is headed in the right direction with 9 percent saying conditions are mixed and 3 percent undecided. While there have been pluralities saying the U.S. is on the wrong track in four of the previous five WSJ/NBC polls during Obama's presidency, this is the first time the number broke 50 percent. The one month where that was not true was April when 43 percent said things were on the right track and an equal number said they were going in the opposite direction.

President Obama's job approval rating stands at 51 percent, the same number it had been during the previous two months.

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Sixty-five percent disapprove of the job Congress is doing compared to 24 percent who approve with 11 percent undecided. Fifty-six percent have a very or somewhat positive view of Obama (this is a different metric than job approval) while 33 percent are in the negative camp. Americans see the Democratic Party positively by a 42 percent to 36 percent margin with 20 percent declaring themselves neutral, while the Republican Party is regarded negatively by 46 percent to 25 percent with 27 percent being neutral. Fourteen percent see the Democrats "very positively" while only 6 say the same about the GOP.

[Zakeet]

Interesting Libtard push poll for you Freeper polling junkies to have fun with.

[knarf]

And if we were on the right track ... ?

[Dewey Revoltnow]

The only ones who will be left supporting zero are those that voted based on skin color.

[raybbr]

I hate this poll. When Bush was president I always said we were on the wrong track - toward socialism. I never felt, under Bush, that we were headed in the “right” direction.