Sixty-six percent of U.S. voters think the country is headed in the wrong direction while 28 percent approve of its course, a national opinion poll indicated.
Forty-seven percent of black voters believe the country is headed in the right direction, though the percentage has been dropping, a Rasmussen
Reports national telephone survey indicated.
By contrast, 70 percent of white voters and 66 percent of all other voters think otherwise, the poll suggested.
Overall confidence in the nation's course has been hovering near the 30 percent mark since November 2009, except for a brief burst of enthusiasm,
largely among Democratic voters, after the U.S. Congress passed two national healthcare reform bills March 23 and 30.
Thirty-nine percent of voters indicated they believe the federal government currently operates within the limits established by the U.S. Constitution.
The national telephone survey of 3,500 likely voters was conducted by Pulse Opinion Research LLC for Rasmussen Nov. 15-21. The survey's margin of error is 1 percentage point.