[lbo-talk] Wrong Track

[T Fast]

Hey man, consider this: 6 months ago sixty percent thought you were headed
in the right direction.  Today sixty percent think you are headed in the
wrong direction.  Ted's support of the congnitive dissonance thesis is
clearly (extremely) temporally bounded.

Travis


>
> Public Opinion Watch - May 26, 2004
> By Ruy Teixeira
>
> <excerpt>
>
> These numbers are bad enough, but the new CBS News data are, if anything,
> even worse. Consider this one: only 30 percent now say that the country is
> headed in the right direction, compared to 65 percent who say that it is
> off on the wrong track. The latter is the highest number ever recorded by
> the CBS News poll since it started asking this question in the mid-1980s.
> As the CBS News polling analysis puts it: "The last time the percentage
> that said the country was on the wrong track was as high as it is now was
> back in November 1994. Then, Republicans swept into control of both houses
> of Congress for the first time in decades."
>
> <end excerpt>
>
> Michael
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