American satisfaction with the direction of the nation remains at a nine-year low.
Only three in 10 Americans—29 percent—are satisfied with where the United States is headed, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday.
Satisfaction among Americans during the past seven and a half years of President Obama’s presidency has averaged 24 percent. Satisfaction has not been that low since Jimmy Carter’s presidency.
The trend marks a stark drop from the average 37 percent satisfaction level in 1979 when Gallup first started the survey.
The latest poll sustained the trend of low satisfaction levels since 2007 when the mortgage crisis first hit.
While the current satisfaction level marks the highest point in 2016 so far, the current average for the year hovers around 27 percent—just one point down from the 28 percent average in 2015.
Gallup found that satisfaction varied depending on party affiliation.
More than half of Democrats said that they were satisfied with the way things were going in the United States. Only 10 percent of Republicans said the same.
Gallup surveyed 1,1,027 adults through telephone interviews June 1-5. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.