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Rasmussen produces some of the most accurate and reliable polls in the country:
Rasmussen Reports™: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america_archive/right_direction_or_wrong_track/37_say_u_s_heading_in_right_direction - broken link)
But the number of voters who say the country is heading in the right direction is up 10 points from the week Barack Obama was inaugurated as president in January and up 16 points from the first week in November when he was elected.
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Democratic Congressional candidates now lead Republicans 41% to 38% in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
As the Senate considers the president’s first Supreme Court nominee, 45% of the nation’s voters say a nominee's legal competence is more important than concerns about diversity or their position on issues.
Confidence in the nation’s conduct of the War on Terror has risen to 52%, the highest level since the beginning of February.
Does this mean that you are saying that somewhere between 30 and 50 million more people are not unhappy with the direction that the country is taking than were when Bush was president?
Gee. Rasmussen squares with every other poll in the world. What is the point that the OP is stretching out and reaching for, I wonder?
What would the right direction be? That would be nice for some clarification.
Here's a couple simple questions. Think about these.
1. If you had a maxed out credit card and couldn't make the payment, would it be smart for you to get more credit cards and max them out too?
2. If you had a neighbor with maxed out credit cards and you heard that you and your other neighbors were going to have to pay them off, would you and your other neighbors think this is okay?
I would assume the answer to both would be NO. If so...there ya go (on just one aspect of what is currently going on). If the answer to these questions is YES then you think we are on the right track.
Rasmussen produces some of the most accurate and reliable polls in the country:
Rasmussen Reports™: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america_archive/right_direction_or_wrong_track/37_say_u_s_heading_in_right_direction - broken link)
Good news indeed!
As Newtoli noted, from the OP's link:
"But the number of voters who say the country is heading in the right direction is up 10 points from the week Barack Obama was inaugurated as president in January and up 16 points from the first week in November when he was elected."
As good as this news is, here is a bit of perspective on weekly polling:
Here's a couple simple questions. Think about these.
1. If you had a maxed out credit card and couldn't make the payment, would it be smart for you to get more credit cards and max them out too?
2. If you had a neighbor with maxed out credit cards and you heard that you and your other neighbors were going to have to pay them off, would you and your other neighbors think this is okay?
I would assume the answer to both would be NO. If so...there ya go (on just one aspect of what is currently going on). If the answer to these questions is YES then you think we are on the right track.
I don't really care what you think, I care about the structure of the poll. The poll doesn't indicate which direction people want to move in at all, just that we're going "the wrong way".
Rasmussen showed McCain ahead of Obama three days before the election. Are they really that accurate? I know conservatives love them and hold them up as the only poll that matters.
There are so many professional polling organizations out there, I think it's best to look at an average of all of them.
I don't really care what you think, I care about the structure of the poll. The poll doesn't indicate which direction people want to move in at all, just that we're going "the wrong way".
Oh sorry...I thought you asked for an example of which direction we were going and why people may not like it.
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