{"id":1195028,"date":"2022-01-06T18:19:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T23:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195028"},"modified":"2022-01-06T18:19:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T23:19:39","slug":"poll-nearly-80-of-americans-now-say-america-is-in-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-nearly-80-of-americans-now-say-america-is-in-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Nearly 80% Of Americans Now Say America Is In Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-nearly-80-of-americans-now-say-america-is-in-decline%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195028&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The vast majority of Americans, regardless of political party, now say that American society and culture are in decline, according to a Thursday poll from the Trafalgar Group and Convention of States Action.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/news\/nat-issues-american-society-1223\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll<\/a> found that 76.8% of respondents believed U.S. society and culture are in a \u201cstate of decay,\u201d with just 9.8% saying society and culture are in a \u201cstate of progress\u201d and 13.4% saying they were unsure. The skepticism held true for all political leanings, with 61% of Democrats, 85.9% of Republicans and 81.8% of those who identify as non-partisan or other saying U.S. society and culture is in decline.<\/p>\n<p>The poll surveyed 1,076 likely general election voters between Dec. 17 and Dec. 21 and reported a margin of error of 3%. Trafalgar&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/Polling-Methodology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">employs a number of methods<\/a>&nbsp;for conducting its polls, including live phone calls, automated calls, emails, text messages, and two other proprietary methods it does not share publicly.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7348532\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7348532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A poll from the Trafalgar Group and Convention of States. (Daily Caller)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">\u201cThese horrific numbers go beyond politics to the heart of who we are as a nation and a people. Americans have always been fueled by hope and optimism, and now are united in disgust. Our leaders in Washington, DC are setting the tone, and clearly we need dramatic changes there in both parties in the next election. But ultimately, it is the grassroots citizens of this great nation <\/span><span lang=\"EN\">\u2014<\/span><span lang=\"EN\"> everyday Americans fighting to return us to our foundations&nbsp;<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">\u2014 <\/span><span lang=\"EN\">who are going to get us back on course,\u201d Mark Meckler, president of the Convention of States Action, said in a statement provided to the Daily Caller.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">\u201cBy permanently reigning in the federal government and restoring the balance of power between DC and the states to its original Constitutional design, we have an opportunity to change these numbers, now and for the future,\u201d Meckler added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/09\/biden-trafalgar-inflation-prices-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE POLL: Biden Is \u2018Not Concerned\u2019 About Harms Of High Inflation, Majority Of Americans Say)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Trafalgar Group was one of only a few polling firms that accurately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/robert-cahaly-trafalgar-group-2020-election-polls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predicted Donald Trump\u2019s victory<\/a> in the 2016 presidential election. The firm was also among the few that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/news\/fl-sengov-survey-nov-6-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predicted<\/a> Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 win in 2018, as well as Republican victories in New Jersey and Virginia in November of this past year.<\/p>\n<p>The poll landed the same day as a poll showing President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/civiqs.com\/results\/approve_president_biden?annotations=true&amp;uncertainty=true&amp;zoomIn=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approval rating was underwater<\/a> in all but three states. Biden\u2019s approval rating has consistently dropped since he entered office at 54%, thanks largely to the resurgence of COVID-19, the border crisis, supply chain chaos, and his botched withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vast majority of Americans, regardless of political party, now say that American society and culture are in decline, according to a Thursday poll from the Trafalgar Group and Convention &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}