“Hunter Biden - what does that have to do with us?” he asked. “They’re fighting over something, and it has nothing to do with the economy,” Brown said, singling out the GOP-controlled House’s investigation of President Joe Biden’s son. But he’s especially disappointed with Congress now, seeing its obsessions as not reflective of the people’s will. “Right now I’m making as much as I ever have, and I’m struggling as much as I ever have.”Ī self-described moderate Republican, Brown has seen the United States falling short of its democratic promise ever since learning in high school that the Electoral College allows someone to become president while not winning the majority of national votes. “I don’t think either of them is doing a good job just because of the state of the economy - inflation is killing us,” said Michael Brown, a 45-year-old worker’s compensation adjuster and father of two in Bristol, Connecticut. About half also say each of the political parties is doing a bad job of upholding democracy, including 47% who say that about Democrats and even more - 56% - about Republicans. Overall, about half the country - 49% - say democracy is not working well in the United States, compared with 10% who say it’s working very or extremely well and 40% only somewhat well. In interviews, respondents worried less about the machinery of democracy - voting laws and the tabulation of ballots - and more about the outputs. The findings illustrate widespread political alienation as a polarized country limps out of the pandemic and into a recovery haunted by inflation and fears of a recession. The poll shows 53% say Congress is doing a bad job of upholding democratic values, compared with just 16% who say it’s doing a good job.
laws and policies do a poor job of representing what most Americans want on issues ranging from the economy and government spending to gun policy, immigration and abortion. adults give high ratings to the way democracy is working in the United States or how well it represents the interests of most Americans, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. WASHINGTON (AP) - Only about 1 in 10 U.S.
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