Also according to Ye Olde NYT, 81% in Poll Say Nation Is on the Wrong Track.

But wait. Saying the country is on the wrong track can mean any number of different things.

While the story says this “unhappiness presents clear risks for Republicans in this year’s elections,” and offers some anecdotal evidence to back up that claim, surely a lot of Americans—specifically, the Republican ones—worry that the country is headed in the wrong direction precisely because of stories like this one:

Bart may have been saying that it was wrong of the NYT to beat up on the Republican Party when folks are all too willing to say one thing in an opinion poll but then do something entirely different at election time.

Well, since the Richmond T-D handles Democrats the exact same way, I’m not sure what his point was. Then again…

Maybe he thinks we should just acknowledge that 19% of the public are correct and 81% have it all wrong. OK, that was facetious.

I’ll give him this much. The indices of public opinion I see make me think that Americans might be down on what Bart euphemistically and whimsically refers to as “White House leadership”; however, they don’t seem so down on conservative thinking or even conservative policies.

Put it this way, why is McCain so high in the polls if he endorses many of the same things George Bush did.

The NYT may be just as interested in the demise of the Republican Party as T-D is in the demise of the Democrats but the American people have a remarkable ability to compartmentalize their opinions and vote by herky jerk and quirk.

It isn’t all bad. We people are far more in tune with practical matters and resist (to a slight extent) the siren calls of the extreme partisans on both sides.

Wishful thinking from the NYT.

If we have a diversity of opinion on which of the wrong tracks we are on, we have a debate or dialogue. Is that bad ?

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