Gallup: American satisfaction lowest since Carter.

[EdwardBernays]

Average 24% Satisfaction Since Obama Took Office

The low satisfaction levels in recent years mean that Obama will be leaving office with an overall satisfaction average -- 24% for the 89 months of his presidency so far -- that is lower than the average measured across the term of any president since Jimmy Carter. Gallup has only three measures during the Carter administration, all in 1979, and they average 19%. Obama's average to date is also below the 37% overall average since Gallup began measuring it in 1979.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/192374/americans-satisfaction-direction-remains-low.aspx?g_source=Politics&g_medium=newsfeed&g_campaign=tiles

Democrats have about a 50% satisfaction rate, but as you can tell - because Democrats make up a minority of voters - when you add in Republicans and Independents that number is more than cut in half.

[RKP5637]

1. And also the US ranks down on the happiness scale when compared to other peer countries. n/t

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Since Carter??

Like Obama, Carter was given a shit sandwich to work with. Had he had a second term, our country would be a FAR SIGHT better AND the USSR would've collapsed FASTER since it was President Carter who hastened the whole collapse to begin with with the grain boycott.

[Baobab]

3. Gorbachev attributed the collapse to Chernobyl and the arms race

So now with the arms race we are only accelerating our own collapse.

[Stevepol]

4. I sense that this is true and one of the things people are dissatisfied with is

POLLS OR THE LACK OF THEM.

especially "exit polls." First of all, every major election should have exit polls. Every one of them!

Second, the exit polls should not be adjusted for some illogical and unscientific reason. That means that it should be recognized that there is no such thing as the "Reluctant Republican Responder" effect, so there's no reason to "adjust" the polls to take account of something that is pure fantasy.

Third, electronic voting machines can be wrong and should be considered as one of the variables in any election. As any computer expert worth his salt will tell you, they are "trivially easy" to maliciously program, hack, or rig and this should be taken into consideration. Just because a computer spits out a given result DOES NOT MEAN THAT THAT RESULT IS NECESSARILY CORRECT. In order to reach that conclusion, the vote MUST BE VERIFIED. If the machines are used, then random audits should be done and if the audits suggest that the results are likely to have been compromised in some way, THE WHOLE VOTE SHOULD BE RECOUNTED BY HAND.