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Right Direction or Wrong Track
23% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Just 23% of Likely U.S. Voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, December 12. Down three points from last week, it’s the most pessimistic finding since January 2009.
Confidence that the country is moving in the right direction is down to 42% among Democrats from 59% the week before Election Day.
Among all voters, confidence in the nation's current course had been hovering around the 30% mark since last November except for a brief burst of enthusiasm, largely among Democratic voters, just after Congress' passage of the national health care bill in late March.
Seventy percent (71%) of voters say the country now is heading down the wrong track, the highest level found since March. Following passage of the health care bill, this number fell slightly but has since returned to levels found prior to the passage of the bill.
Forty-nine percent (49%) of those in President Obama's party feel the country is on the wrong track. Eighty-nine percent (89%) of Republicans and 76% of voters not affiliated with either political party agree.
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Leading up to Obama's inauguration in January 2009, the number of voters who felt the country was heading in the right direction remained below 20%. The week of his inauguration, voter confidence rose to 27% and then steadily increased to 40% in early May 2009. Confidence began falling after that.
Sixty-two percent (62%) of the Political Class believe the United States is generally heading in the right direction, down from last week, while 80% of Mainstream voters think the country is going down the wrong track.
Just about half of black voters (51%) still believe the country is heading in the right direction. Seventy-six percent (76%) of white voters and 70% of all other voters are pessimistic about the nation’s current course.
Republicans hold a six-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot.
Voters still trust Republicans more than Democrats on seven out of the 10 most important issues regularly surveyed by Rasmussen Reports.
Most voters have favored repeal of the health care law every week since it was passed, and support for repeal has now inched up to its highest level since mid-September.
Most voters still approve of the tax cutting deal between the president and senior congressional Republicans, but support has fallen somewhat – in some surprising places.
Voters nationwide continue to show little optimism about America’s relationship with the Muslim world. And a sizable number continue to believe that relations between Israel and the United States will worsen in the year ahead.
Americans remain just as pessimistic about the country's job market as they have been all year.
Most voters continue to be concerned about global warming but still are more inclined to think it's caused by planetary trends rather than human activity.
Voters are evenly divided over whether young people brought to this country illegally by their parents should be viewed as breaking the law. Making a distinction between illegal immigrants and their children is at the heart of the so-called DREAM Act that some in Congress are hoping to pass before the end of the lame duck session. But voters still strongly believe that gaining control of the border should be the priority in immigration legislation over legalizing the status of those who are here illegally.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is urging Congress not to pass pending legislation that would ban the transfer of terrorism suspects from the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba to the United States for any reason. The Obama administration plans to try some of those suspects in U.S. courts. But a plurality (46%) of voters favor a ban on transferring the suspected terrorists to this country. Most voters think the terrorist suspects should be tried by military tribunal rather than in civilian courts.
Voters also are more concerned than ever that the ongoing effort to close the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba will allow dangerous terrorists to go free.
Americans historically have always worked to make sure their children were better off than they were, but the number who believe today's youth will be better off than their parents has fallen to its lowest level ever.
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