Only 11 percent of Americans are satisfied with the current direction of the country, according to a new poll released by pollster Gallup on Tuesday (Jan. 26).
In a Jan. 26 report, U.S. media outlet Gateway Pundit said Biden signed 37 executive orders within six days of taking office. However, Biden himself acknowledged in a summary of his first week in office that recent polling data shows that the percentage of Americans satisfied with the direction of the United States is at a 10-year low.
The latest Gallup poll found that only 11 percent of Americans are “very” or “somewhat” satisfied with the way things are going, while 66 percent are “very dissatisfied” with the way things are going. The satisfaction rate is the lowest recorded since 2011 and only slightly higher than the all-Time low of 7 percent in 2008.
The poll was conducted after the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol and before Biden’s inauguration. Gallup pollsters surveyed 1,023 adults between Jan. 4 and 15. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
The poll data show that on a bipartisan basis, Republican satisfaction has fallen from a high of 60 percent in October 2020 before the U.S. election to 14 percent in early January, while Democrats are even less satisfied at just 5 percent. Over the past several months, Democrats have been showing extremely low satisfaction rates. Such a result is remarkable given that Democrats now control the White House and both houses of Congress.
Gallup said the two main factors contributing to Americans’ dissatisfaction are the coronavirus Epidemic and the economic downturn. Forty-five percent of those surveyed said they were satisfied with the situation in February 2019. But since then, that rate has dropped sharply.
Gallup said Trump‘s (Trump’s) legal challenge to the election results and the congressional riots earlier this month may also be causing some dissatisfaction. But on Trump’s last day in office, Rasmussen reported polls showing that Trump still has a high approval rating of 51 percent.
Gallup predicts that popular satisfaction may improve in the coming months as the U.S. economy continues to recover and as more Americans receive the coronavirus vaccine.
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