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Scubamatt

(217 posts)
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 02:26 PM Thursday

Right Track/Wrong Track Polls?

It seems like when Biden was president, every week there was an ominous "Is this country on the right track or wrong track?" polls, pushing issues from Covid Response, then to foreign relations (Afghanistan), then to inflation and then on response to Hamas's attack on Israel. And the reporter would always report that this (never mattered what issue it was, it was always the same) was sobering news for Joe Biden. Now, we have a fascist kakistocracy in DC, inflation is really on the rise, SCT cant take away rights fast enough and there are brownshirts running through blue states/cities putting people in concentration camps. Where are those polls now?

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Right Track/Wrong Track Polls? (Original Post) Scubamatt Thursday OP
I get polled by Rasmussen a lot, they ask it every time. I hate it as a question ms liberty Thursday #1
Right track or wrong track is flawed Jerry2144 Thursday #2

ms liberty

(10,731 posts)
1. I get polled by Rasmussen a lot, they ask it every time. I hate it as a question
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 02:36 PM
Thursday

Because it's just too vague, and it and the other questions usually don't really address the why of the question. When Biden was POTUS, we were on the right track economically but on the wrong track also, because the GOP and the Orange Monster were ginning up hatred and division, and the GOP controlled Congress and SCOTUS so things weren't moving or being done.

Jerry2144

(3,023 posts)
2. Right track or wrong track is flawed
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 03:00 PM
Thursday

I could think we’re in the wrong track because we’re not solving my personal preference of problems or we’re not extreme enough. Or I could think we’re on the wrong track because we are feeding our Constitution and our laws and our Humanity into one of those industrial metal shedding machines. It’s meaningless determination of parallax depending upon which way you view the track.

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