.HayesBrown: Americans are being asked this same question over and over again. The constantly depressing answer says it all.
The high point in NBC News’ polling came in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks when 72 percent of Americans said the country was heading in the right direction. Gallup saw a similar “rally around the flag” effect in the subsequent weeks. The second-highest result — 70 percent of Americans satisfied — was measured between Dec. 6-9, 2001. That number slid through the coming months, before spiking again to 60 percent in March 2003 as the Iraq War began.
It’s all been downhill from there. January 2004 was the last time Gallup showed a majority of Americans happy with the direction of the country. As measured by both polls, satisfaction with the country’s direction cratered during the financial crisis in the fall of 2008. Gallup measured 7 percent satisfaction in September of that year; NBC News reported that 12 percent believed the country was moving in the “right direction.
Even Gallup’s analysts see the disconnect between their respondents’ answers and external stimuli. “As is almost always the case, Americans who identify with the party of the president are more likely than others to be satisfied with the way things are going,” Gallup said in October 2018, when a recent high of
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