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Sep 3, 2007

Sour Americans

Sour Americans hungry for change
as election approaches

A tattered American flag flies two days after Hurricane Katrina

Patrick Schneider/Charlotte Observer

A tattered American flag from a destroyed home in east Biloxi, Miss., flies two days after Hurricane Katrina. | View larger image

DES MOINES, Iowa — A year before they choose a new government for the post-Bush era, Americans are desperate to change the country's course.

According to opinion polls and interviews with political experts and voters, the U.S. population is more liberal than at any time in a generation, hungering to end the Iraq war, turn inward and use the federal government to solve problems at home.

Still, polling indicates, some want to turn farther right, demanding that the country fence off its Southern border, expel illegal immigrants and rein in a federal government grown fat under a Republican government they now dismiss as incompetent.

The surveys point to one thing almost all Americans tend to agree on: They're deeply unhappy with the way things are going in the United States and eager to move on. There's virtually no appetite to extend the Bush era, as there was at the end of Ronald Reagan's presidency in 1988 or Bill Clinton's in 2000.

  • Just 1 in 5 Americans think the country is going in the right direction, the worst outlook since the Reagan-Bush era ended in 1992.
  • Less than one-third of Americans like the way the current President Bush is handling his job, among the lowest ratings in half a century. The people had similarly dismal opinions just before they ended the Jimmy Carter era in 1980, the Kennedy-Johnson years in 1968 and the Roosevelt-Truman era in 1952.
  • The ranks of people who want the government to help the poor have risen sharply since the early 1990s — dramatically among independents, but even among Republicans.

2 Comments:

At 7:03 AM , Blogger JoeC said...

Wow...I think I found a group I fit into! I'm a sour American, too ;-)

 
At 7:53 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I know what you mean, Joe, I think I may have found my niche.

 

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