According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday, nearly seven in ten Americans say the country is on the wrong track, the highest level since Obama took office.
That finding caps three months of diminishing confidence in where the nation is headed, a sharp downward trend that began back in mid January, shortly after the new Congress was sworn in.
In the poll, 69% of Americans said they think the country is headed in the wrong direction, versus just 25% who said the country was headed in the right direction. Those results resemble the current TPM Poll Average, which shows that 67.7% of Americans believe the country is heading in a negative direction, while 25.7% believe the opposite.
Immediately after the midterm elections, Americans began to have a more rosy outlook on the nation’s direction. But once the new Congress was sworn in and the raucous debates between the two parties began, that trend quickly reversed.
Check out the trends:
A PPP poll released earlier this week found that voters have some buyers remorse for electing a GOP majority to the House last November. In that poll, a 43% plurality of voters said that Republicans were doing a worse job running Congress than the Democrats whom they took over for this year. Thirty-six percent said Republicans were doing a better job than Democrats did.
The Reuters poll was conducted April 7-10 among 1,042 adults nationwide. It has a margin of error of 3.0%.
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