Tuesday, September 29, 2015

NBC/WSJ Poll: Anger Defines 2016 Electorate

One word seems to define the American public's mood more than 13 months until Election Day 2016 — anger.
 
According to the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 62 percent of respondents believe the country is headed in the wrong direction — the 59th-straight NBC/WSJ poll over the past six years when a majority thinks things are on the wrong track.

A plurality of adults feel angry because the American political system seems to be working for those with money and power.

And more than half of Americans — 55 percent — say that something upsets them enough that they'd carry a protest sign for an entire day if they could.

The one hitch: The public is divided over the source of this anger. 

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