Polling

81% in Poll Say Nation Is on the Wrong Track

These results don't surprise me at all. What does, however, is the poor phrasing of the poll's choices.

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.

I believe your other choice is "generally going in the right direction". Are all those qualifiers necessary? Must we be so timid in our polling? Why wasn't it: America is heading in the ______ direction - check "right" or "wrong". Sometimes simpler is so much better. Instead, we have things that have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track. Ugh.