US heading in wrong direction?

A poll by the New York Times has found 81% of Americans think their country is headed in the wrong direction. Wow! Even more staggering, this percentage kept pretty constant amongst all sorts of demographics - Republicans, Democrats, young, old, city, country. You can see the full results here (PDF document). The question to ask I guess is whether they all have the same idea of which direction it should be going. The answer here would be almost certainly no. Conservatives think it's not going conservative enough, progressives want things to go away from the direction President Bush has taken the country. But it is staggering that 4 in 5 Americans think their country is heading in the wrong direction.