tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post1694040019908550319..comments2024-01-17T00:45:37.075-08:00Comments on Bud Meyers: Poll: Americans are Broke and AngryBud Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-36127372567739968112016-01-05T15:23:14.628-08:002016-01-05T15:23:14.628-08:00Wall Street Journal (January 4, 2016) Voters Dour ...Wall Street Journal (January 4, 2016) Voters Dour Mood Is Clear<br /><br />Public-opinion experts see a kind of darkness out there...<br /><br />Republican pollster Bill McInturff and Democrat Fred Yang conducted a Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey, and says: "The country is unable to shake the perpetual feeling of the blues—anxious and upset and angry that our politics cannot seem to fix these problems."<br /><br />Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway describes the nation’s mood this way: "Sour and dour. Nervous, on edge, a feeling of vulnerability and a lack of control." She frames the two parties’ choices this way: Will Mrs. Clinton run promising the third term of President Barack Obama, or the third term of her husband, Bill Clinton? Is it possible that “the anti-Washington, anti-political-class antipathy has created a path so wide and so deep that only Trump can fill it?” <br /><br />Democratic pollster Fred Yang sounds similar tones: "Anxious, dissatisfied, impatient and basically any other word that connotes uncertainty."<br /><br />Democrat Celinda Lake summarizes American's views succinctly: "They think the future is weak for themselves and the next generation, and they despair of politicians especially in Washington getting anything done.”<br /><br />And where will all that anxiety lead by the time voters actually start casting ballots? So far, of course, the national mood has helped fuel the rise of the antiestablishment outsiders Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders.<br /><br />http://www.wsj.com/articles/voters-dour-mood-is-clear-consequences-much-less-so-1451938158Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.com