Wenzel
Strategies
recently conducted a poll for WorldNetDaily
(WND). The survey revealed that more than
three-quarters of Republicans and Independents who vote in GOP primaries –
including 87% who describe themselves as very conservative – are ready to write
the nation’s epitaph … believing the best days for America are long gone, never
to return. The poll also found 90.5% of
the likely GOP primary voters believe the nation is on the wrong track. The frustration peaked among those who
describe themselves as ‘very conservative.’ Among them, 98.1% said President Obama is off track.
Even among those who described
themselves as ‘very liberal,’ more than 8 out of 10 (83.3%), said America is on
the wrong track.
Pollster Fritz Wenzel said the fact
that 9 out of 10 Republican primary election voters say they think things in
the United States are headed in the wrong direction is not a big surprise. “It is the foundational organizing principle
of the GOP that the reign of the Obama Administration and the aftermath of
those 2-years of total Democratic Party control from 2009 to 2011 represent the
worst diversion from personal liberty and constitutional governance in the
history of the nation,” he said.
The critique of Obama’s occupancy of
the White House has remained the same for several months. This poll, however, found that even Independents
… who vote in GOP primaries … are opposed to Obama’s leadership. “Since this survey sample does include Independent
voters who prefer to vote in Republican primary elections, it’s interesting to
note that even among these non-aligned voters, 88% said things are headed in
the wrong direction,” Wenzel said. “It
is simply mind-numbing that the very future of American health care is being
handed to the federal government at the same time when American distrust and
dissatisfaction of the government is at or near an all-time high,” he
commented.
Men (90.4%) and women (90.7%) were alike
in their opinion about the nation’s direction, as were married (91%), single
(88.1%) and divorced or separated (94.1%) respondents. There was no region of the nation where more
than 12.1% of the GOP primary voters though the nation is going the right way. And in what may be a surprising result … given
Obama’s push for amnesty for illegal aliens … fewer Hispanics (5%) than Whites,
Blacks or Asians, believe Obama is leading the right way.
Another question focused on whether
respondents believe the nation’s best days are gone for good, now that Obama
has been president for about 5-years and has three more left in his second
term. Nearly 78% said “yes.” “This is as disturbing a measurement of the
American view of their own nation as we have seen, because it speaks very
personally to what these adults think about the lives their own children will
lead,” Wenzel said. “It is a measurement
of American discouragement, and no one is more discouraged that those age 45 to
64, the age group including parents of children who are just entering or have
recently entered the workforce.” Wenzel
said these people have “witnessed firsthand how their own children are
struggling to find meaningful careers, and they are witnessing the result of Washington’s
demonization of the traditional American dream and financial success.” “When you strip the politics out of this
question, it speaks to a very sad situation here in the United States,” he
said.
87% of those who describe themselves as
“very conservative” said the best is in the past. The breakdown was 83% of the women, 84% of
blacks and nearly 83% of those in the middle income range, from $50,000-75,000
a year.
The Wenzel poll from May showed that
even 42% of the president’s own Democratic Party believes him to be leading the
nation on the wrong path. At that time,
Wenzel warned that for Obama it “is growing more unlikely that public opinion
will ever improve much, if at all.”
Perhaps your thoughts were not
solicited in this Wenzel poll. So let me
ask you: Would you say that things in our country are headed in the right
direction, or would you say things are off on the wrong track? Would you say that, thinking about everything
that is going on in the United States today and our overall state of affairs,
the nation’s best days are behind us, ahead of us, or are we right now enjoying
the very best days in the history of our nation?
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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