Came across poll results for January 7-10 on Gallup Politics via Drudge just now showing that “20% of Americans mentioning the federal budget deficit as the top problem, compared with 18% mentioning dissatisfaction with some aspect of government or government leaders, and 16% naming jobs or unemployment.”
Gallup further notes that “Now, the "dissatisfaction with government" percentage is as high as it has been since the Watergate days of 1974, although the precise ways in which these open-ended questions have been coded has changed somewhat during that time. The percentage mentioning the deficit as the top problem is as high as it has been since 1996.”
Scanning lower on the list of issues I found that “Guns and Gun Control” concerned only 4% of those polled.
So, what this says to me is that although guns are indeed a serious problem, 96% of the population doesn’t see the issue as critically important to them. However, politicians seeking headlines as usual, are using the recent tragedies to divert focus from the miserable job they’re doing in running the nation.
What’s even more interesting than that is, if you look closely at the tightening gun control legislation, even that being touted in New York as the toughest country-wide, it really doesn’t do much at all. And, in fact, if those laws already on the books were enforced as they should be, the new ones don’t add much protection or change by comparison.
But, in the end, what I think the poll really shows is that try as they may, it’s getting harder for incompetents to hide their faults and misjudgments. And in that regard, voters are now beginning to see what huge errors they’ve made. All of which says to me, as I’ve been noting often lately, I don’t think the next four years are going to be an easy ride for anyone now holding office of any kind.
That’s it for today folks.
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