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Snapshot: GOP Drives Satisfaction With Governance to 38%.

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Byline: Megan Brenan

Synopsis: Thirty-eight percent of Americans are satisfied with the way the U.S. is being governed, a 10-point increase since 2017 that is exclusively attributable to higher positivity among Republicans.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While U.S. adults remain largely dissatisfied with the way the nation is being governed, their satisfaction is up 10 percentage points since last year, to 38%. This increase is exclusively attributable to further heightened positivity among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, whose satisfaction rose from 47% last year to 72% now. At the same time, Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents' satisfaction is static at 10%.

The latest findings are based on Gallup's Sept. 4-12 Governance poll, which has asked this question annually since 2001.

Background: Americans' 38% level of satisfaction with the way the U.S. is being governed is on par with the 37% historical average since 2001. The September readings have been as low as 19% in 2011 after the U.S. credit rating was downgraded in response to a deal to raise the federal debt limit.

As would be expected, partisans' satisfaction with national governance is directly linked to the president's party, as it has been for the past 18 years. Two months before Donald Trump won the election in 2016 and Democrat Barack Obama was still president, 55% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents vs. 12% of Republicans and Republican-leaning...

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