ELECTION 2016
65% OF VOTERS BELIEVE NATION OFF-TRACK
Poll conflicts with stated support for Clinton, Obama job approval
While Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton maintains a sizeable lead over Donald Trump in most opinion polls of the presidential race, a new wide-ranging survey reflecting the nation’s ideological divide shows remarkable agreement that America is on the wrong track under the current Democratic administration.
Only 30 percent of registered voters say the nation is heading in the right direction while 65 percent say it is on the wrong track, according to a new poll by the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
As expected, there’s a partisan divide within the result. Some 89 percent of Republicans believe the nation is on the wrong track. But 70 percent of independents and 39 percent of Democrats share that belief.
If Clinton represents a third Obama term in the minds of voters, one might expect the poll to be good news for Trump. Nevertheless, Clinton leads national polling, and President Obama’s job approval rating in the Monmouth poll rose to 56 percent, from 49 percent last month.
Furthermore, a Rasmussen poll taken during the 2012 campaign for the week ending Aug. 5 found only 27 percent of likely U.S. voters thought the country was headed in the right direction. Yet Obama ended up defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney by 51 percent to 47 percent in the popular vote.
Digging deeper into the Monmouth poll may offer some insight into why Clinton is leading despite a sizeable majority of Americans concluding the nation is off track.
The voters were asked whether they feel that their own personal way of life is under threat from six different sources. Some 54 percent saw a threat from a Trump presidency while 42 percent saw a Clinton presidency as a threat. The biggest perceived threat, at 61 percent, was from Islamic terrorists.
In a WND interview last month after the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, a black resident of the city who was unemployed and receiving government benefits, including completely subsidized health care, said that while he believed the nation was “off track,” he still planned to vote for the Democrat, Clinton.
A Rasmussen poll of likely U.S. voters for the week ending Aug. 4 similarly found only 31 percent believe the nation is headed in the right direction.
The latest Monmouth survey was drawn from 803 registered voters contacted by telephone Aug. 4-7.
Divided nation
The new poll found that 70 percent agree the nation is divided when it comes to important values.
Half of the electorate, according to Monmouth, fear the country would suffer lasting damage if people who hold core values different than their own are able to implement their policies.
Yet, a total of 60 percent of voters say they trust the American people to make the decision.
“We are seeing a mixed bag of results here,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute. “Voters claim they trust the American people to make political decisions, but it seems that may only apply if they actually agree with those decisions. And the conflict they see among their political leaders doesn’t boost confidence.”
The poll also found 54 percent of voters believe the current government in Washington has a negative impact on most people’s lives. Approval of Congress remains severely low, at 14 percent.
Nearly half (47 percent) believe the American way of life is under a great deal of threat and 31 percent sense some threat.
Monmouth noted that voters under the age of 35 tend to feel less of a threat from six named sources – which included Islamic terrorists and the two major presidential candidates – than voters age 35 and older, with the exception of Trump.
Sixty-one percent of those under 35 feel Trump could be a threat to their way of life as president compared to 52 percent of those age 35 and older.
Younger voters are also less likely to trust the American people’s political judgment, (45 percent of those under age 35 compared to 66 percent of those age 35 and older.
The younger voters also are less likely to have a great deal of concern if people who don’t share their political views get into power – 39 percent compared to 53 percent. They’re also more comfortable with the harsh rhetoric used in politics today (34 percent compared to 25 percent).
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/65-of-voters-believe-nation-off-track/#fUC3ws7eZZixKoSv.99My comments: America is a Nation with No Values, as the only Real Values come from God and His Word. Today, America is Dominated by the Religion of godless, Socialist, Secular Humanism which is Valueless, relative to God and His Word--It is the Religion where everyone does what is right in their own eyes as long as the STATE approves. Unless this changes, and there is REPENTANCE, and a turning to God and His Word, America is HOPELESS!
No comments:
Post a Comment