Poll: 71 Percent Believe U.S. Is on the Wrong Track

Can you remember the last time the majority of people thought America was on the right track? Not so much. Well, a new NBC/WSJ poll with the general theme of “everything sucks” finds that 71 percent of adults believe the United States is on the wrong track, and 60 percent think we’re in a state of decline.

Roughly 70 percent pointed the finger of blame at political gridlock for the current state of the economy. 79 percent are just fed up with the political system in general. (2 percent said they are “very satisfied” with how the political system is going, and obviously we need to meet these people since they’re about as rare as unicorns.)

Of course, if everything sucks, then everyone must also suck, and numbers for President Obama and both parties are not good. Obama and Congressional Republicans tie for disapproval ratings of 54 percent each; but whereas Obama’s approval rating comes in at 40 percent, the GOP only gets 19 percent.

Meanwhile, the Democrats have a 46 percent disapproval rating and a 31 percent approval rating.

You can check out all the poll results here.

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