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One of my social media friends thinks I spend too much time blogging about Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

I heard him. So I think I’ll shift gears for a moment or two.<\/p>\n

Those polls that measure whether Americans think we’re heading on the right or wrong track puzzle me. Take a look at the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls on that subject.<\/p>\n

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What these averages don’t necessarily say up front is whether Americans want the nation’s directly to veer sharply to the right or sharply to the left.<\/p>\n

I generally pay little attention to these polls.<\/p>\n

The RCP average says there’s a 30-plus percentage variance, meaning that about one-third more Americans think the country is heading on the “wrong track.”<\/p>\n

No one has ever polled me on the subject. If one were to ask me, I’d say we’re doing just fine. I heard the U.S. Labor Department jobs report this morning and learned we added 161,000 non-farm jobs in October; the jobless rate declined to 4.9 percent; wages went up.<\/p>\n

Is that a wrong track indicator regarding the economy?<\/p>\n

I don’t think so.<\/p>\n

Foreign policy issues? Well, we haven’t been hit by a major terror attack since 9\/11. We keep killing terrorists around the world. Our alliances seem solid.<\/p>\n

Federal budget policy? The deficit has been cut by one-third during the past eight years. Is it still too great? Yes. It’s heading in the “right direction.”<\/p>\n

I’m digressing.<\/p>\n

Right track-wrong track polls tell only part of the story.<\/p>\n\n

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One of my social media friends thinks I spend too much time blogging about Donald J. Trump. I heard him. So I think I’ll shift gears for a moment or two. Those polls that measure whether Americans think we’re heading on the right or wrong track puzzle me. Take a look at the latest RealClearPolitics … Continue reading Right-wrong track polls tell only part of story<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,13,14],"tags":[95,775,2502,3773,3853,4969],"class_list":["post-17803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-95","tag-budget-deficit","tag-jobless-rate","tag-public-opinion-polls","tag-realclearpolitics","tag-u-s-labor-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17805,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17803\/revisions\/17805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}