Russ Smith Today, 3 out of 4 likely voters say that the country is heading in the wrong direction. This differs little from one year ago and has hovered around this point for as long. And for just as long, around 1 in 2 likely voters say that they disapprove of the job President Obama has been doing. So if 75% of voters feel the country has been heading in the wrong direction for the past year why do only 50% of them believe that the president is doing a bad job? They can’t throw the blame on Bush, Obama played that cared out years ago. They can’t blame it on the economy as in doing so it puts the blame right back in the president’s lap for effecting 6 years of snail paced economic growth. And they can’t blame congress as this too puts the blame back on the president whose job it is to break political dysfunction and lead the nation into strength and prosperity. The cause for the disparity is quite simple actually; it’s one where political ideology overrides common sense. Far too many voting Americans know little more about the political affiliation that they attach to themselves to, beyond the fact that they have always been a republican or a democrat. Most could not tell you the ideology of the opposing party beyond repeating the campaign rhetoric spewed by their claimed party. When asked if they feel like the country is heading in the right direction, they think back to the emptiness of their wallets and all the turmoil taking place across the world and answer NO! But when asked if “their guy” is doing a good job, their own apathy has left them to believe anything going wrong in our country has to be the other guys fault. We don’t need better candidates or better policies, we need better voters, ones that care enough to put in the work to make informed and responsible voting choices, not choices made by entrenched party line politics and a personal apathy to actually look into the issues.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:53:22 +0000
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