FReepathon day 40.
Two percent a day keeps the 404 away.
Posted on 08/10/2014 7:36:38 AM PDT by mandaladon
Polls from major networks, researchers and newspapers agree: America’s in a bad mood.
In just one week, polls found politicians of all stripes are hitting approval numbers with record lows. The president finds himself roughly as popular as a trip to the dentist. The entire Democratic Party gets the thumbs down. Oh, and so does the Republican Party.
But it doesn’t stop there. Americans are also bummed out about the future in general, especially the economy. Things are so low that even an old favorite, sugar, polled poorly.
(See the latest congressional polls from POLITICO's Polling Center)
Pollsters say it all adds up to a country that feels “everything is terrible,” as one put it, a mood that campaigns should consider as they head into the midterm homestretch, when turnout should be all about enthusiasm – not pessimism.
“With an ‘everything is terrible’ mindset, I’m mostly thinking about how after several years of cantankerous and unproductive lawmaking in Washington, there are very few political figures or institutions who the public trusts anymore,” the Washington Post’s polling analyst Scott Clement said in an interview.
When it comes to candidates, voters are also less than thrilled with both incumbents and their challengers.
“What we’re really seeing in an unprecedented way, especially in the key Senate races, is that voters don’t like either of the major candidates,” said Tom Jensen, the director of the left-leaning Public Policy Polling.
Jensen pointed to Arkansas, Louisiana, Alaska and North Carolina, where Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, remains ahead. However, Jensen said it’s not because of high approval ratings.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
So here’s the result of ‘change you can believe in’?
Instead its chains you’ve been deceived in.
And yet they still hate the conservatives and TEA Party.
Stupid, stupidly blind sheeples of the USA.
Indeed!
I pray that will be the case here, but I do not know...Things are looking mighty bleak.
I voted for Romney and I don’t miss him a bit. Obama is a mess because LIVs voted him in they’d have voted for Romney if he were a leader but he was just to them a white wealthy version of BO, and he was just that
That’s who Romney was working for and he’d have prolonged all of this.
Conservatives have to start believing in themselves, in God and in the Constitution, Politicians AND the people. We keep waiting for approval from liberals, Hollywood, MSM, the 47% Romney SHOULD have written of. And that’s what won’t happen. They’ll get behind the next a America hater they won’t go conservative. It’s insane to think so. They’d have hated Romney
We need eight years of a leader just to start fixing this
And they’ll hate him or her every step of the way. It will be bad and any sign of caring about that will be seen as weakness and attacked, just like backing down on the 47% comment
A Romney can’t handle this sheeple crowd
Hagan and the rest of the Dems in congress are in for a whooping.
The Obamalaise has set in.
It feels like 1977 all over again.
In Obama’s world, everything is a failure except for him. Those who buy into that line are bound to feel frustrated and demoralized. Life was so much simpler when GW was the ultimate scapegoat and lightning rod for all that was wrong in the world.
“Term limits is the only way to save the country.”
If you want term limits for the Senate and Congress you will have to amend the constitution. It was passed as part of Gingrich’s Contract with America and signed by Pres. Clinton.
Then it was thrown out by the Supreme Court.
You can do it at the state level, but not Federal.
So, I wish people would stop talking about this unless and until they are going to make the necessary effort to at an Amendment.
My suggestion, end all post office benefits for them. No pension, no healthcare, no nothing. I think that will serve as a defacto limiter on their time of service.
Jimma Carter and his team were incompetent and naïve.
The Obama gang is harming our country intentionally.
And his party and their media are working in concert with them.
“Cantankerous and unproductive lawmaking in Washington”.
That means that the proggs are not getting they’re way and the conservaties that are holding the fort are in the way.
I really wish that the press could get something right. But it will never happen.
The world is on fire. What do you expect?
When Ted Cruz, quite possible the last federal politician I had any trust in, joined Glenn Schmeck at the border to shower the illegal invaders with gifts, that was the last straw for me.
I officially don’t care which side of the same coin comes out on top. The Demoncrats wants to jump off the Marxist cliff and the do-nothing Republican pantywaists are the party of “don’t rock the boat.”
The American sheeple bitch to no end about Republicans and Democrats, nominate the same establishment hacks in the primaries year after year, and then completely disregard anyone who doesn’t run with the duopoly in the general elections.
We are a nation of paper tigers. Nobody has the courage to take the first step away from the establishment.
“We are a nation of paper tigers.”
I agree. Lots of talk and chest thumping. Fists (and some other things) need to start flying.
Yeah, they forgot to mention that one...
Let me illustrate. I have a daughter in high school. She has six classes.
In two of the six classes both teaches are very openly anti-gov't. One of them has gone into great detail on "current event" Friday to explain the coming collapse and to try and explain what is happening to the kids.
Granted, I live in Arizona and not Massachusetts (my neighbor flies a "don't tread on me flag" from his house) but still...it's every where. The polarization is growing stronger by the day. The center will not hold.
And yet, as bad as the Americans polled believe the country is, they still vote for the GOPe / incumbents over any other option.
The voters regard our political leaders as crap, yet they still vote for the status quo. It paints a bleak picture for our future.
I keep thinking things must be bad, because my sister, who’s always been the “optimistic” one, and a rah-rah-Republican type, has pretty much given up on everything over the past few years. Has no interest anymore with either news or politics, and fully believes the country is permanently lost. An attitude I believe she’s acquired since she started working as a teacher, and came in wide contact with the pathetic state of youth/parents of her area, and the culture that surrounds them both.
I share such bleak views, but it arises more from seeing America so relatively unperturbed by such massive government corruption, as well as such a large portion of the country embracing such degeneracy as dope and fag-marriage. I no longer have any faith or confidence in the American people. And the more depraved the country becomes, the less interest I have in its preservation.
I’d like to see someone run as an American in favor of Americans and Traditional Values. NO black, latino, white, gay, liberal, conservative, or whatever. Just for Americans and America. No save the world or more rot like that.
Conservatives, Liberals, republicans or demorats. If they are a politician or lawyer they are all the same... for sale to the highest bidder.
Intelligent people are not in a bad mood.....they are cautiously prepping, mentally physically,and emotionally, for the coming economic turmoil that will make today’s so-called issues look like the good old days...
be fearful...
You describe what we have become. A totally polarized nation with little in common. One side is at least a bit honest about their own short comings and the other side consider themselves flawless and without blame though. Liberals are unwilling to concede to any position but their own and anxious to pounce on any admission of wrong by conservatives.
I relate this to my own life. People are ready to capitalize on your own self-deprecation and use it against you to the maximum benefit for them selves. Never expect them to negotiate and reciprocate in fault honestly... it will be very rare and you will recognize it when you see it.
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