Poll: 81 percent think US on wrong track 2 hours, 4 minutes ago

NEW YORK - More than 80 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the highest such number since the early 1990s, according to a new survey.

The CBS News-New York Times poll released Thursday showed 81 percent of respondents said they believed "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track." That was up from 69 percent a year ago, and 35 percent in early 2002.

The survey comes as housing turmoil has rocked Wall Street amid an economic downturn. The economy has surpassed the war in Iraq as the dominating issue of the U.S. presidential race, and there is now nearly a national consensus that the United States faces significant problems, the poll found.

A majority of Democrats and Republicans, men and women, residents of cities and rural areas, college graduates and those who finished only high school say the United States is headed in the wrong direction, according to the survey, which was published on The New York Times' Web site.

Seventy-eight percent of respondents said the country was worse off than five years ago; just 4 percent said it was doing better.

The newspaper said Americans are more dissatisfied with the country's direction than at any time since the poll's inception in the early 1990s. Only 21 percent of respondents said the overall economy was in good condition, the lowest such number since late 1992. Two in three people said they believed the economy was already in recession.

Still, the approval rating of President George W. Bush did not change since last summer, with 28 percent of respondents saying they approved of the job he was doing.

The poll also found that Americans blame government officials for the housing crisis more than banks or home buyers and other borrowers. Forty percent of respondents said regulators were mostly to blame, while 28 percent named lenders and 14 percent named borrowers.

Americans favored help for people but not for financial institutions in assessing possible responses to the mortgage crisis. A clear majority said they did not want the government to lend a hand to banks, even if the measures would help limit the depth of a recession.

Respondents were considerably more open to government help for homeowners at risk of foreclosure. Fifty-three percent said they believed the government should help those whose interest rates were rising, while 41 percent said they opposed such a move.

The nationwide telephone survey of 1,368 adults was conducted from March 28 to April 2. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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And yet that same 81% continue with their partisan bickering , playing the same game that got us to this point , promote the same political hacks spouting the same empty rhetoric (oh, no - this one REALLY means change , REALLY.).

I can only imagine that TPTB are THRILLED at this statistic , as it confirms that virtually EVERYBODY can be unhappy with their circumstances and their governing , and do NOTHING real to change it.

Safe and secure with the American sheep.

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Its funny, but even through boom times like the mid 80's and the mid 90's there were a lot of people who felt the Nation was on the wrong track. They didn't like something. It all comes down to "what can the government/country do for me" instead of them thinking the other way around.

They almost always think the country was better off at some other time period than it is now. Just human nature.

But then, even with all that said, the people still seem to vote for the same people over and over again. They put the same hacks back in office that caused them to think they were better off 5 years ago than today. They vote for the same hacks who caused them to think that the country has gotten off track.

Let me be blunt about the Country and People I love. We as a nation are stupid and deserve everything we get. Unless we stop sending these jerks to Washington and State Capitols we are not going to get anything different. Pretty simple.

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At one time, 100% of the world believed the earth was flat.
Your point?

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Bush-lite fooled the American people

Do you use a pencil sharpener on your head or is it pointed naturally?

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The jews need to throw a holocaust, they owe us one.
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The question should be what track should we be on? Should we continue down the track to socialism but at a faster pace or should we return to more economic and personal freedoms as promised to us in the Consitution?

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Well your side has been in charge for the better part of eight years and when YOUR president leaves office, he will be leaving a country on the verge of economic, environment and military collapse... so I it's safe to say that your way didn't work.

By the way, would you say you've had a better existence under Clinton or Bush?

Bush will EASILY go down as one of the WORST presidents in the history of this country and your stupid ass is talking about socialism when you leave in the LEAST SOCIALISED COUNTRY IN THE DEMOCRATIC WORLD.

You don't have a solid leg to stand on in this arguement Nathan...

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Obama is the closest thing to "Non Washingtonised of any candidates I've seen in since Kennedy.

He has the best chance of changing something because the road of that Bush took us down has produced nothing but enormous debt and heartache for families of the fallen... fallen for no GOOD reason.

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We all know the little CNN poll questions are lefty loaded, and answered mostly by college kids.

I'm sure you prefer your news from the Reichstag of Fox News who propaganda ministers are busy doing two things (since the country is in the toilet) the only thing they are left report on is Rev Wright and missing white women and polling any idiot with gun rack in the back of their pickup. Bitch.


I'm sure you prefer your news from the Reichstag of Fox News who propaganda ministers are busy doing two things (since the country is in the toilet) the only thing they are left report on is Rev Wright and missing white women and polling any idiot with gun rack in the back of their pickup. Bitch.

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