Poll: Most Americans see the country on the right track

[DonViejo]

Source: MSNBC

10/27/16 11:20 AM—UPDATED 10/27/16 12:04 PM
By Steve Benen

Those who see the 2016 cycle as a “change election” point specifically to right-right/wrong-track polls. As we discussed last week, it’s a deeply flawed metric, but many pundits continue to say there’s a broad public appetite for radical change – for proof, they point to the fact that most Americans consistently say the country is headed in the wrong direction. But sometimes, the wording of a question can produce unexpected results. Take this new CNN poll, for example.

More Americans than at any time in Barack Obama’s presidency now say that things in the United States are going well, a sharp uptick in positive views and the best reviews of the country’s trajectory since January 2007, according to the latest CNN/ORC poll.

Overall, 54% say things in the country today are going well, 46% badly. That’s a reversal from late July when 54% said things were going poorly and 46% said they were positive.

While right-track/wrong-track polling has been common for many years, this poll asked respondents, “How well are things going in the country today – very well, fairly well, pretty badly or very badly?” A combined 54% majority said things are going very well or fairly well.

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Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/poll-most-americans-see-the-country-the-right-track?cid=eml_mra_20161027

[Skittles]

1. it needs to be on the left track

[SpankMe]

2. Win. n/t

[NurseJackie]

10. Boo ... groan ... hiss ... and

[Rex]

11. Thread win in 1!!!

[Iliyah]

3. Corporate media ain't gonna report this.

[DonViejo]

7. MSNBC is not considered to be "corporate media"?

[stopbush]

4. The "change election" meme was nothing more than an anti-D propaganda tactic

aimed at Hillary and Obama. You never heard the media opine that change meant throwing out the obstructionist Rs in Congress.

[underpants]

6. Thanks OBAMA

[Iliyah]

8. The Rs are anti-Democracy and their lunatic religious right supporters

are just crazy.

[beachbum bob]

9. awful news for conservatives that 8 years of foxnews propaganda has finally ended in failure

....this alone bodes well for america if this can be a wave election and send conservatives home

with Obama at historic high levels of approval at this point in a second term is a nightmare for those campaigning against 4 more years of Obama policies

[SunSeeker]

12. Yes indeed. nt

[YOHABLO]

13. We have work to do folks. First foremost, repeal citizens united, and take over Congress.

[madokie]

15. Get Hill in the Oval Office first

then turn her loose. She has no more fucks to give even before she starts. I see her getting right in the CONs faces from day one and it will resonate with the majority of the American people cause we've seen the shit that this group of republiCONs have been doing these last 20 years plus

[madokie]

14. Let me see

if I can get this right. If the 'CONs had been doing their actual jobs these last 7 1/2 years, rather than trying to destroy Obama, the Presidents numbers would be well over 100 now. If thats even possible that is