President Joe Biden completes his first hundred days in office with a country that is more optimistic about the coming year, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans (64%) are optimistic about the direction of the country in the poll, which was conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel.
The last time the country came close to that level of optimism about the coming year was in December 2006, when 61% said they were optimistic about where the country was headed, according to previous ABC News/Washington Post polls. Shortly before the 2016 election catapulted Donald Trump to the Oval Office, only 42% of Americans were optimistic about the future, compared to 52% who were pessimistic.
In December 2006 (post-Hurricane Katrina and with the U.S. bogged down in Iraq), Democrats had won control of both houses of Congress, picking up 31 House seats, five in the Senate, and six governorships.
I could stand that again.
CNN last night ran with ‘The honeymoon is over‘ between progressives and Biden, citing a Justice Democrats and the Sunrise Movement memo and challenges in passing his agenda, The groups agree with Biden and are just champing at the bit for more wins more quickly and less bipartisan posturing. There was no controversy or split there, but controversy draws eyeballs.