Americans Gloomy About 2023: 80% See Economic Hardship, 90% Internal Political Conflict, Only 36% Say US Heading In The Right Direction

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Americans Gloomy About 2023: 80% See Economic Hardship, 90% Internal Political Conflict, Only 36% Say US Heading In The Right Direction
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Majorities of Americans predict negative outcomes in 2023 for a host of economic, political, societal and international issues, writes Megan Brenan.

  • About eight in 10 foresee economic struggles, higher taxes, budget deficit
  • 90% expect political conflict in U.S.; 85% predict international discord
  • Democrats more optimistic than Republicans about 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Coming off several challenging years, Americans enter 2023 with a mostly gloomy outlook for the U.S. as majorities predict negative conditions in 12 of 13 economic, political, societal and international arenas.

When offered opposing outcomes on each issue, about eight in 10 U.S. adults think 2023 will be a year of economic difficulty with higher rather than lower taxes and a growing rather than shrinking budget deficit. More than six in 10 think prices will rise at a high rate and the stock market will fall in the year ahead, both of which happened in 2022. In addition, just over half of Americans predict that unemployment will increase in 2023, an economic problem the U.S. was spared in 2022.

On the domestic front, 90% of Americans expect 2023 will be a year of political conflict in the U.S., 72% think the crime rate will rise, and 56% predict there will be many strikes by labor unions.

Regarding world affairs, 85% of U.S. adults predict the year ahead will be fraught with international discord rather than peaceful. And while 64% think the United States’ power in the world will decline, 73% think China’s power will increase. 

These findings are from a Dec. 5-19 nationally representative web survey of U.S. adults who are members of Gallup’s probability-based panel.

Gallup has asked Americans for their predictions for the coming year intermittently over the years starting in 1960. The prior surveys were conducted by in-person or telephone interviews, and the results are not directly comparable to the current data collected by self-administered web survey.

However, historical data have generally shown that Americans’ forecasts for the coming year are largely dependent on their views of the domestic and international climates at the time. Likewise, recent Gallup polling underscores the public’s gloomy outlook in their 2023 predictions on domestic issues.

Democrats More Hopeful About 2023 Than Republicans, Independents

Party identification is the greatest demographic differentiator in predictions for 2023, with Democrats more likely than Republicans to offer positive predictions for all of the dimensions. This is a typical phenomenon whereby Americas who identify with the sitting president’s party are more positive in general in their outlook for the year ahead.

Majorities of Democrats foresee five positive developments in 2023. These include full or increasing employment (69%), a reasonable rise in prices (53%), a rising stock market (53%), an increase in U.S. power (56%). Democrats are least likely to predict political cooperation (13%) and a peaceful year mostly free of international disputes (21%).

Aside from the 36% of Republicans who expect few labor union strikes in the year ahead, no more than 23% of Republicans expect a positive outcome for any of the other 11 dimensions.

Bottom Line

Americans are greeting 2023 with great skepticism and little expectation that the economic struggles that closed out 2022 will abate. Few U.S. adults also predict the partisan politics that plague the nation will improve, not an unreasonable expectation given that there will be divided government in 2023 after Republicans won control of the U.S. House of Representatives. The public’s predictions for international affairs are similarly pessimistic. However, with their party controlling the White House, Democrats are more hopeful about the year ahead, Megan Brenan concludes

POLL: Only 36 Percent Of Likely Voters Think Country Is Headed In The Right Direction, by Mike LaChance

Very few Americans are happy about where the country is headed.

In fact, according to a new poll, only 36 percent of likely voters think the country is headed in the right direction.

Who makes up that 36 percent? The media and Hollywood?

Breitbart News reports:

Poll: Only 36 Percent Say U.S. Headed in the ‘Right’ Direction

Only 36 percent of likely voters in the United States think the county is headed in the “right” direction, which is down from the previous survey, a new Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found.

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The Rasmussen Reports survey also found that 58 percent think the country is going in the “wrong” direction, with six percent unsure how they felt. The survey was taken online with 1,900 respondents during the week ending December 29, 2022.

The percentage of respondents who thought the county was going in the “right” direction was down one point from the week prior, with the percentage of respondents believing the country was headed in the “wrong” direction going up one percent.

At the same point one year ago, 26 percent of the respondents said the U.S. was headed in the “right” direction, while 65 percent said it was on the wrong track.

The survey was taken from December 25 to 29, 2022, with 1,900 U.S. likely voters through a national telephone survey. There was also a two percent margin of error and a 95 percent confidence level.

This is a reflection of Biden and his horrible policies.

Seriously, who are the people who think things are going well?

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