Poll uncovers potential 2012 pitfall for GOP

[DearAbby]

f there was one thing American voters made abundantly clear on Nov. 2, it's how unhappy they are with politicians and the way things work — or more often don't work — in Washington. Survey after survey has shown that the majority of voters want their elected representatives to do a much better job of coming together to solve the country's problems.

Impact of midterm elections? Most Americans bet on gridlock

So will things improve after the "shellacking" that voters gave to Democrats in handing control of the House over to the Republicans?

Few Americans appear to be counting on it. In a new ABC News/Yahoo! News poll, most say they have little expectation that things will get better as a result of the recent midterms. Respondents were asked if they thought the election was more likely to move the country in the right direction or the wrong direction. The largest chunk of respondents, some 40 percent, said they didn't expect the election to make a difference at all. Only one-third of those polled, 34 percent, thought the results would move the country in the right direction, while another 21 percent said they thought things were headed the wrong way.

An even more telling sign: a whopping 81 percent thought that gridlock — in which the two political parties cannot agree and thus don't pass any meaningful legislation — is likely to occur in the two years leading up to the next presidential election.

If the three weeks since the election are any guide, they look to be dead right.

More:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclusive/20101122/pl_yblog_exclusive/impact-of-midterm-elections-most-americans-bet-on-gridlock

[BeyondGeography]

1. They want the country to come together so they handed power back to the nihilists

I salute the wisdom of the American electorate.