ABC News/Washington Post poll shows deep voter dissatisfaction
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- An ABC News/Washington Post poll out Tuesday shows deep dissatisfaction among voters.
Nearly seven in ten people polled said America is on the wrong track; only about three in ten say the economy is actually getting better; and 43-percent approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing.
People voting early at Raleigh's Optimist Park fell generally in those groups.
Barbara, who wouldn't give her last name, agreed that, in parts, the country is on the wrong track. "I think some people in Congress are not looking at what the people really want. I would hope they'd get people who would have a little bit more knowledge."
Dale and Julie Burbank agreed that the country is on the wrong track and the president is, in large part, to blame for it.
"I'm just not satisfied with what's been going on since he's been president for the most part."
We asked how to turn it around. "Change the administration," was Julie Burbank's suggestion. "Make it easier for businesses to expand and create jobs," said Dale Burbank.
But some, like Raleigh voter Eugenie Eaborn, were more upbeat. Eaborn has perhaps the least to be upbeat about - she's out of work and her husband is on disability - but of everyone we talked to at the Optimist Park early polling site, Eaborn was easily the most optimistic.
"I don't agree that we're on the wrong track," Eaborn said, "I truly don't. I just think there are a lot of people who are misinformed."
Asked about the president's low approval numbers, Eaborn answered, "If you look back at all the presidents in their four-year terms, it happens every time. It happened to Bush; it happened to his father, it happened to Clinton. It's just, we want it better. We do want it better. It's just; people don't realize how good we have it here in the United States."
"We really work hard every day, Eaborn continued, "but I believe it still could be worse. I just have a positive outlook."
