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

Not to toot my own horn, but I’ve been saying a version of this for years. Right track/wrong track, but for what reason? Is the country not doing enough of thing X? or doing too much of thing Y?
It’s been my argument that there needs to be at least one follow up question included in any reporting/discussion around this topic. Perhaps a “If you had to distill it all down to one reason for your answer, what would it be?”
That would provide more insight into what the right/wrong answer means. This article was far better at capturing that sentiment than I could have articulated (with data, no less !!). Thanks to the original authors and to TPM for republishing it here.

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