--- title: American Voters Are Unhappy About Everything, Poll Shows description: Especially Trump supporters canonical: https://time.com/4283710/donald-trump-poll-quinnipiac/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-06T15:58:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:30:27.138Z article:section: Politics og:title: Americans Are Really Unhappy About Everything, Poll Says og:description: Especially Donald Trump supporters og:url: https://time.com/4283710/donald-trump-poll-quinnipiac/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbdab09b792bf50b0/69888df2a988cab6de6b749d/trump-make-america-great-again.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Campaign Rally og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Americans Are Really Unhappy About Everything, Poll Says twitter:description: Especially Donald Trump supporters twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbdab09b792bf50b0/69888df2a988cab6de6b749d/trump-make-america-great-again.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Americans Are Really Unhappy About Everything, Poll Says by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Apr 6, 2016 3:58 PM UTC  Attendee Rich Travers wears a "Make America Great Again" hat before Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, not pictured, speaks during a campaign rally at Pennichuck Middle School in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S., on Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. Attendee Rich Travers wears a "Make America Great Again" hat before Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, not pictured, speaks during a campaign rally at Pennichuck Middle School in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S., on Monday, Dec. 28, 2015.Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Apr 6, 2016 3:58 PM UTC A [new poll](https://www.qu.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2340) shows American voters are experiencing great dissatisfaction with the state of the country—and Donald Trump supporters are even more upset than everyone else. The Quinnipiac University survey released this week found that some 57% of Americans either strongly or somewhat agree with the statement “America has lost its identity.” While 79% of all Republicans replied to that effect, fully 85% of Trump supporters did. Similar figures were reflected in response to the statement “I’m falling further and further behind economically,” with 57% of all Americans saying they strongly or somewhat agreed, compared with 67% of all Republicans and 78% of Trump supporters. Republicans in general and Trump supporters in particular were also more likely to agree that their “beliefs and values are under attack,” “the government has gone too far in assisting minority groups” and “public officials don’t care much what people like me think.” The poll surveyed 1,451 voters from March 16 to 21 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4283710/donald-trump-poll-quinnipiac/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4283710/donald-trump-poll-quinnipiac/"},"headline":"Americans Are Really Unhappy About Everything, Poll Says","datePublished":"2016-04-06T15:58:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:30:27.138Z","description":"Especially Donald Trump supporters","url":"https://time.com/4283710/donald-trump-poll-quinnipiac/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbdab09b792bf50b0/69888df2a988cab6de6b749d/trump-make-america-great-again.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbdab09b792bf50b0/69888df2a988cab6de6b749d/trump-make-america-great-again.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Campaign Rally","caption":"Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Campaign Rally","creditText":"Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4283710/donald-trump-poll-quinnipiac/","name":"Americans Are Really Unhappy About Everything, Poll Says"}}]}] ```