Americans sense that their lives are getting better at home and at work. It’s when they tune into the news that they grow increasingly uneasy. Fifty-five percent of people say they are moving closer to realizing their hopes for their own careers and finances, yet only 26 percent say the […] Read more »
Satisfaction With Direction of U.S. Remains at 25%
Americans are as satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S. as they have been for the past five months. One in four (25%) say they are satisfied with current direction of the country, while 74% express dissatisfaction. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
Early Signs of Another Republican Midterm Wave
Today we are releasing our first survey of the 2014 landscape, a cooperative endeavor conducted with Democracy Corps for NPR. Greenberg Quinlan Rosner conducted the calls March 19-23, 2014, and compiled the data. The survey polled 840 likely 2014 voters nationally. The sample contains 6 percentage points more Democrats than […] Read more »
The Spring of Shrinking Hopes
… Some seven months before Election Day, the political indicators are not encouraging for Democrats. First, the answer to one question — “Do you think things in the nation are generally headed in the right direction, or do you feel things are off on the wrong track?” — essentially provides […] Read more »
Will the political bubble burst?
Activist investor Carl Icahn was on CNBC this week, ranting against the board of directors of eBay, when he broadened his harangue to include the broader economy, saying that markets and the nation are in deep trouble, particularly because of lingering unemployment, and that an economic fall is coming. … […] Read more »
The grim NBC News/WSJ survey: The ‘14 reality is likely worse for Democrats
Democratic after-action reports on their Florida-13 special election loss are clear: they lost because they didn’t turn out the vote. While there is much parsing on the who, what, when and where of Obamacare, the facts are that Republicans showed up while Democrats didn’t. … The internals of the most […] Read more »