Does Asking Americans Whether ‘The Country Is On The Wrong Track’ Actually Measure Anything Useful?

This is just a more generalized version of the garbage that was polling around the ACA, or some of the polling around Ukraine. Any time you ask whether people approve of current policy, you really have to have a directional followup/crosstab. (ACA was particularly that way, where iirc something like a third of anti’s were because it didn’t go far enough.)