{"id":1505422,"date":"2022-06-06T13:21:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505422"},"modified":"2022-06-06T13:21:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:21:54","slug":"poll-under-joe-biden-americans-are-losing-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-under-joe-biden-americans-are-losing-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Under Joe Biden, Americans Are Losing Hope"},"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\">16<\/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-under-joe-biden-americans-are-losing-hope%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=1505422&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--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Americans are &#8216;deeply pessimistic&#8217; about the economy, political divide, and the American dream<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tSan Diego gas prices in February 2022 \/ Reuters\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 June 6, 2022 1:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Americans are &#8220;deeply pessimistic&#8221; about the economy, the United States&#8217; political divisions, and most people&#8217;s ability to achieve the American dream, according to a <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i>-NORC poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/inflation-political-division-put-u-s-in-a-pessimistic-mood-poll-finds-11654507800?mod=djemalertNEWS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Around 83 percent of respondents said the economy is &#8220;poor or not so good,&#8221; and 35 percent said they aren&#8217;t &#8220;satisfied at all with their financial situation&#8221;\u2014the highest level of dissatisfaction since the pollster started asking the question in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-eight percent of respondents said their financial situation had gotten worse, the highest amount since the Great Recession.<\/p>\n<p>Record-high inflation under President Joe Biden is driving their economic pessimism, NORC vice president Jennifer Benz told the <i>Journal<\/i>. Multiple economists, including former Obama administration officials, have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/watch-obama-adviser-says-were-all-paying-the-price-for-bidenflation\/\">blamed<\/a> Biden&#8217;s multitrillion-dollar American Rescue Plan for the inflation numbers. Experts <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-publishes-historic-recovery-as-us-barrels-toward-recession\/\">predict<\/a>\u00a0the United States is heading for a recession under Biden. Gas prices have more than <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/thanks-joe-gas-prices-have-doubled-since-biden-became-president\/\">doubled<\/a>\u00a0since Biden took office.<\/p>\n<p>The economy is not the only issue on which Americans feel pessimistic, however. Eighty-six percent of respondents said the United States is &#8220;greatly divided&#8221; about &#8220;the most important values,&#8221; and over half said they expect divisions to worsen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the prior years that we&#8217;ve asked this question, there&#8217;s at least been some hope, a little bit more hope,&#8221; Benz said. &#8220;That&#8217;s a key difference&#8221; from this year.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 60 percent of respondents said they doubt that most people can achieve the American dream.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Benda, a former Democrat, told the <i>Journal<\/i>\u00a0that he cannot afford to visit family because of sky-high gas prices under Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m angry,&#8221; Benda said. &#8220;Our government is doing what&#8217;s right for their special-interest groups, and everybody else be damned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just 13 percent of respondents said they think Americans of differing political views can &#8220;come together and solve the country&#8217;s problems.&#8221; Nearly two-thirds of respondents said social media platforms deserve blame for that divide.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, which surveyed 1,071 people, was conducted from May 9 to May 17.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Americans are &#8216;deeply pessimistic&#8217; about the economy, political divide, and the American dream  San Diego gas prices in February 2022 \/ Reuters  Karl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505422","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\/1505422","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505422\/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=1505422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}