One word seems to define the American public’s mood more than 13 months until Election Day 2016 – anger. According to the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 62 percent of respondents believe the country is headed in the wrong direction – the 59th-straight NBC/WSJ poll over the past six […] Read more »
Most Agree With Trump on America’s Lost Greatness, Bloomberg Poll Finds
Americans are “fed up” with politics, suspect the wealthy are getting an unfair edge, and think the country is going in the wrong direction, according to a new Bloomberg Politics poll that lays bare the depth and breadth of the discontents propelling outsider candidates in the Republican presidential field. CONT. […] Read more »
Government, Economy, Immigration Seen as Top U.S. Problems
In September, Americans are most likely to name dissatisfaction with government, the economy and immigration as the “most important problem” facing the country, although no one issue is named by more than one in five Americans. Mentions of the government and immigration are up slightly from August. CONT. Rebecca Riffkin, […] Read more »
Americans More Optimistic About Job Market in September
The percentage of Americans feeling positive about the U.S. job market — saying now is a “good time” to find a quality job — jumped six percentage points in the past month to 45%, restoring this figure to the seven-year high it reached in January. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
Five Things You Need To Know Before Predicting The 2016 Election
In a different context, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld called them the “known unknowns,” the critical questions that must be answered in order to better forecast the results of a campaign. His campaign was a war; ours is war by other means. With more than a year to go […] Read more »
Improving Trend for Obama on the Economy
Numerically more Americans approve than disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling the nation’s economy, only the fifth time that’s occurred in ABC News/Washington Post polls since the second year of his presidency. CONT. Gary Langer, ABC News Read more »