0% of Democrats satisfied with the state of America: Gallup poll

The Gallup poll, released on Tuesday, found that just 0.4 percent of Democrats are satisfied "with the way things are going in the United States at this time. Among Republicans, 76 percent said they were satisfied, while 25 percent of independents responded as such.

Gallup noted that the roles were flipped in July of 2024, under the last year of the Biden administration, where just one percent of Republicans were satisfied and 97 percent were dissatisfied. However, at that point, only 36 percent of Democrats were dissatisfied, with the majority, 62 percent, being dissatisfied.

The 76-point gap between Democrats and Republicans in the August poll is the highest recorded by Gallup, but follows recent trends where May saw a 75-point gap and March and July saw a 74-point gap. Before 2025, the largest gap between parties and their satisfaction level was in October 2024, where there was a 70-point gap. The poll was conducted between August 1 and 20 of 1,094 US adults and has a margin of error of 4 percent.

Columbia University government professor Robert Shapiro told Newsweek, "Two things are at work. One is genuine Democratic dislike of what is happening in the economy regarding prices, tariffs, etc. and then all the opposition to what Trump has been doing. Second is partisan perceptual biases that lead Democrats to see things as worse than they are and Republicans better than they are. It is only good news for the Democrats if this mobilizes voters in 2026. The voters are not so happy with the Democratic Party and its leaders."

University of Kentucky political science professor D. Stephen Voss said that Democrat voters are "are especially cranky now, because they are frustrated not only with the dramatic shift in policies that the GOP has been enacting, but also with the inability of their own party leaders to stop those policy shifts. Voters more to the left are furious that their leadership cannot or will not fight harder, while even moderate Democrats who usually can tolerate Republican leadership are reacting negatively to the aggressiveness of Trump's new administration."