Forty-two percent of registered voters polled say they do not feel differently about the direction of the U.S. after the midterm elections, according to a new American Barometer survey.
The poll, conducted by Hill.TV and the HarrisX polling company, also found that 37 percent of respondents felt “more optimistic,” while 21 percent said they felt “more pessimistic” about the direction of the country.
The poll comes over a week after Democrats regained control of the House while Republicans maintained their grip on the Senate.
Among Democrats, 53 percent said they felt “more optimistic” about the direction of the country, while 13 percent said they felt “more pessimistic,” and 34 percent answered “about the same as before.”
Twenty-seven percent of Republicans said they felt “more optimistic,” and 32 percent said they felt “more pessimistic.”
Forty-one percent of Republicans said they felt “about the same as before.”
“It has a mixed story, of course,” pollster Lee Miringoff told Hill.TV’s Jamal Simmons on “What America’s Thinking.”
“There’s a sense that we need to move in a different direction, but people have also been telling pollsters they’re not sure that’s exactly going to happen at the moment. So there’s a sense, yeah, we’ve done something on the midterms, but it’s not exactly going to fix the problems in the capital,” he said.
The American Barometer was conducted Nov. 9-10 among 1,000 registered voters. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
— Julia Manchester
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