Poll: Americans’ satisfaction with US plummets

Americans’ satisfaction with their nation’s state of affairs fell 12 points since last month, according to a new poll.

Seventeen percent say they are satisfied with how the U.S. is doing in the Gallup survey released Thursday.

{mosads}Twenty-nine percent were satisfied with their country’s condition in June, marking a major drop in one month’s time.

Pollsters said the 12-point freefall is tied with the largest decrease in satisfaction since Gallup began polling Americans about it monthly in 2001.

The previous largest decrease, they said, occurred during October 2008 as the financial crisis was taking hold.

Thursday’s results also found satisfaction is lowest overall since October 2013, when Republicans in Congress led a federal government shutdown.

Gallup said satisfaction has averaged between 20 and 30 points the last two years, with low points of 20 percent in November 2014 and December 2015.

Pollsters additionally discovered Americans considered “race relations/racism” July’s most important issue, with 18 percent picking that topic.

“Dissatisfaction with the government” ranked second at 16 percent, while “economy in general” placed third with 12 percent.

Gallup conducted its latest sampling of 1,023 adults nationwide via cell and landline telephone interviews from July 13-17. It has a 4 percent margin of error.