Poll: Americans anxious, pessimistic ahead of the midterms

What BBN said about it

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSeventy-one percent of Americans say the country is on the wrong track, the highest share of Trump's second term, in the new NBC News poll.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI prefer to call that seventy-one percent who are really engaged with directions.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTrump's approval is thirty-four percent, a second-term low. Fifty-one percent strongly disapprove.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat is a majority who feel strongly, Vera, and I've never seen you stay positive about a majority.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThe right track has sunk into the twenties for the first time this term. That is a low-pressure system, and I take it personally.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorCan I just say, the White House spokesperson, Davis Ingle, said underestimating Trump has proven the experts and pollsters wrong every single time.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEvery single time. And yet Trump has promised five thousand dollar payments if Republicans win, and most adults in this poll aren't persuaded.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistLet me finish. If the pollsters are always wrong, who exactly is the five thousand dollars for?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Democrats aren't winning this either.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOnly forty-three percent view their party favorably, and fifty-seven percent don't. I'd call that a party with room to be introduced.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNobody wins. Brilliant.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistAnd the GOP pollster Patrick Ruffini found that in Iowa, Michigan and Ohio, ninety-three percent of Senate polls overestimated the Democrat.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSo everyone's forecast is wrong, and mine is at least honest.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe pollsters are always wrong, the poll is dismissed, and the cheque is still in the post.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFive thousand dollars is the only part of this anybody believes.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRex has sports, where at least the scoreboard doesn't get a rebuttal.