The results from an AP-Ipsos poll are being pimped as a disastrous outlook by Americans on life, the world and everything. By the AP, of course.
Only 25 percent of those surveyed say things in the U.S. are going in the right direction, according to an AP-Ipsos poll this month. That is about the lowest level of satisfaction detected since the survey started in December 2003.
Rarely have longer-running polls found such a rate since the even gloomier days of 1992 ahead of the first President Bush's re-election loss to Democrat Bill Clinton.
The current glumness is widely blamed on public discontent with the war in Iraq and with President Bush. It is striking for how widespread the mood is among different groups of people.
Women and minorities are less content than men and whites, which has been true for years. But all four groups are at or near record lows for the AP-Ipsos poll, and at unusually low levels for older surveys, as well.
But if you think this is bad right now, just wait.
Wait until gasoline prices double, then double again, then double again due to agitation over global warming. Cheerfully pimped by the media.
Wait until jobs, union blue-collar and white-collar jobs, are really gone for good – due to global warming hysteria pimped by an out-of-(self) control media and the insane prices of energy in the US.
Wait until an America devastated in the global community by the stupid inanities of internal partisan politics is relegated to third class status in the world. Cheered on by the American media.
Think it's bad now?
(Note to American journalists: Think you'll still have jobs when the country that gave you the freedom to tear her down is no longer capable of doing so? Then you're really. really not very bright.)
‘Women and minorities are less content than men and whites, which has been true for years.’
Journalists are in a word OBTUSE. Do they not understand their illogical and irrational statements? Now if women and minorities are less content than men and whites my question is after identifying women, minorities and men who left is the ‘whites’ of which they speak?
I just purchased the movies “Network” and “A Face in the Crowd” both excellent reflections of media’s power to drive people crazy.
What I cannot understand is how those whom I consider to be my liberally-driven, open-minded friends cannot see the insipid reprogramming of reason that is happening right before their eyes.
Polls…..hmmmm does anyone know anyone who has answered one of these polls????
I ask people all the time if they knew anyone who was polled, answer, no one knows anyone.
Wouldn’t you tell someone you were polled?? Of course you would.
Now I know that the LATimes polled the same 600 people over and over and they were all registered Democrats. The LATimes simply said that they had problems getting through to registered Republicans and were more comfortable with their loyal standby pollsters.
In my mind, anyone who believes in polls believes in the Tooth Fairy, who might exist, but we’ll never know until someone polls the Tooth Fairy.