That's how many liberal bloggers are interpreting a new, national right track/wrong track poll released by CBC/The New York Times today:
In the poll, 81 percent of respondents said they believed “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track,” up from 69 percent a year ago and 35 percent in early 2002.
Firedoglake poster "Scarecrow" cites the findings as evidence of Republican failure:
The primary reason McCain isn't sharing Bush's dismal approval numbers and trailing Clinton/Obama badly is because the media are shielding him from political gravity. They need to let go and let the entire party crash. They've earned it.
As does Daily Kos diarist "DemFromCT":
And this is not going to help John McCain win an election (nor help John Boehner keep his job..
Air America Radio offers more of the same
Matthew Yglesias looks deeper into the findings and notes how the respondents are evenly split at 43 percent as to whether Americans want government to solve their problems:
So the numbers are tied, but focus on the trend. Americans are notoriously hostile to big government in the abstract but tend in practice to favor expanded government services when you get down to specific examples.Conservative bloggers are so far largely silent on the poll findings. Is that because they too believe the numbers are an indictment of President Bush and Republican governing philosophy? One would assume that if Democrats controlled the White House, conservative bloggers would be heralding these numbers in a similar fashion comparable to their liberal counterparts today.
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