I do want to raise a point that I have raised elsewhere, though. I'm not sure how much stock we should place in "right track/wrong track" polling questions. If I were asked this, I might well think first about the dominance of the MAGAt point of view, the rise in militant Christian Nationalism, the fact that Trump, f…
I do want to raise a point that I have raised elsewhere, though. I'm not sure how much stock we should place in "right track/wrong track" polling questions. If I were asked this, I might well think first about the dominance of the MAGAt point of view, the rise in militant Christian Nationalism, the fact that Trump, ffs, is still a coin toss away from getting reelected, and one of the two major parties has lost all spine and moral compass. So, I might well say "wrong track." I suspect I'm not alone in this.
I should add that I completely buy the statistical picture that you presented -- of course I think most things are going pretty well in the US. My only point here was about the ambiguity of that one poll question.
Thanks for the boost!
I do want to raise a point that I have raised elsewhere, though. I'm not sure how much stock we should place in "right track/wrong track" polling questions. If I were asked this, I might well think first about the dominance of the MAGAt point of view, the rise in militant Christian Nationalism, the fact that Trump, ffs, is still a coin toss away from getting reelected, and one of the two major parties has lost all spine and moral compass. So, I might well say "wrong track." I suspect I'm not alone in this.
I should add that I completely buy the statistical picture that you presented -- of course I think most things are going pretty well in the US. My only point here was about the ambiguity of that one poll question.