Majority Says Nation Is Headed in Wrong Direction -WP

[Rose Siding]

A majority of likely voters says the country is headed in the wrong direction, but these Americans remain sharply divided whether President Bush or Democratic challenger John F. Kerry is the best choice to lead the country over the next four years, according to a Washington Post tracking poll.

Fifty-five percent of the likely voters interviewed Oct. 21-24 said they believe the country was "pretty seriously off on the wrong track," while 41 percent said it was "generally going in the right direction." Among the larger pool of self-described registered voters, and among all adults, the proportions were the same.

Despite those pessimistic views of the country's direction, the poll found the race for president remains virtually a dead heat. Kerry received 49 percent of the likely vote while Bush got 48 percent, marking only the second time since the Post began tracking the election on Oct. 1 that Kerry held the lead. Independent candidate Ralph Nader received 1 percent of the hypothetical vote.

But the survey also found that dissatisfaction with the country's progress is hurting Bush among two critical swing groups: independents and first-time voters

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61985-2004Oct25.html

[stepnw1f]

1. Quick!!!! Arrest Everybody

We'll weed out the librals latr.....

[Krupskaya]

2. Stories like these drive me up the wall.

People who think we're going in the wrong direction but still vote for Bush make my head explode. It's like when you're in a car yelling at the driver to turn the hell around because you're going the wrong way and he ignores you. Only on a larger scale, and people are dying because of it. /extended lame metaphor.

[Rose Siding]

5. LOL, I get it...

My first thought was Just Shoot Me Now. :D

[DieboldMustDie]

3. Stay the course! Stay the course!

:crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy:

[whistle]

4. Must be a push-pull survey that generalizes what wrong direction....

...means. Some may say that giving tax breaks to the middle class is the wrong direction. Some may believe that failing to drop nuclear bombs on al Queida in Afghanistan is the wrong direction. Otherwise it would be pretty clear why respondents are split as to whether Kerry or Bush is the best choice.

The question of right or wrong direction is meaningless without proper qualification. That type of survey design is Karl Rove's doing I'm sure, it only muddies the water. With proper qualification of that position, we would know that the majority of sane Americans would agree with the direction Kerry proposes while the direction Bush is taking the country appeals to the wing nuts and lunatic fringe in America. That might also serve well to define who should be allowed to vote and should be discouraged from voting.