# Are you an angry voter? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 4, 2016, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-angry-voter/747917 "2016-03-04T12:59:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-angry-voter/747917/1 "2016-03-04T12:59:49Z")
I found the facts in [this Chicago Tribune article](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-bernie-sanders-barack-obama-democrats-20160302-story.html) interesting. > [@](#): > > … It is an article of faith this year that voters are angry. But this shorthand misleads. Certainly, there is real economic anxiety in the United States, but Americans are, overall, quite content: 87 percent of Democrats and 87 percent of Republicans alike said in a Gallup poll in January that they are satisfied in their personal lives. … > > … 89 percent of Republicans think we’re on the wrong track. With Democrats, it’s reversed: Only 34 percent say we’re heading the wrong way. > > Compare that with the same time in the 2008 election cycle, when a two-term Republican president was in office. Back then, Democrats were the most unhappy: only 6 percent said the country was heading in the right direction, while 47 percent of Republicans thought so … So, are you an angry voter? And how does that anger or lack of it impact how you are going to vote? Poll to follow. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-angry-voter/747917/2 "2016-03-04T13:07:28Z")
Lately I have been. I wasn’t that angry in 2008 because it was somewhat heartening how everyone in the nation was angry at Bush. But ever since, my patience has been exhausted with the literal craziness of the GOP. I’ve been angry with policy in general, as well. When gay marriage was passed, I was not happy, but instead thought IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME. I think I will still be angry after this election unless the Democratic Party retains the White House, retakes the Senate, AND makes gains in the House. I am tired of waiting for demographic change to bring us back to sanity. Although there have been social changes that have bled through, like a good number of New York Republicans passing same sex marriage a few years ago, which would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. I would have included the Republican governor of South Dakota vetoing an anti-trans bill a couple days ago, but that wasn’t even an issue a few years ago so I am not sure if we are slipping back or going forward on that. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-angry-voter/747917/3 "2016-03-04T13:26:46Z")
No love for the pissed or pleased Independents, I see. I’m always happy during the physical act of voting. One of the only places I go where I’m the youngest person in the building. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-angry-voter/747917/4 "2016-03-04T13:37:21Z")
There are more independents than either Democrats or Republicans. This thread just made all of us very angry. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-angry-voter/747917/5 "2016-03-04T14:48:56Z")
Yeah my bad. Had to finish up quickly. My apologies. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-angry-voter/747917/6 "2016-03-04T14:53:06Z")
Please answer according to your usual lean, very few do not have one, and further add comments in thread. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-angry-voter/747917/7 "2016-03-04T15:00:12Z")
Needed more options. I answered “not mad”, but I’m getting there quickly. I suppose an ideal poll would also include mad at… Current leaders, the candidates, the other party. All in all, a messy, long poll if we dissect it enough. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-angry-voter/747917/8 "2016-03-04T15:04:05Z")
Democrat angry. It seems like everything that has been done by politicians lately has negative impacts on me, even if they have a positive effect on people as a whole. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-angry-voter/747917/9 "2016-03-04T15:29:29Z")
The OP has requested this be closed so he can make a better poll.