A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that two-out-of-three Americans (67%) feel the country is not better off today than it was five years ago.

This finding comes at a time when just 32% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the country is heading in the right direction, while 64% say it's heading down the wrong track.

Eighty percent (80%) of Republicans and 74% of adults not affiliated with either major political party say the country is not better off than it was in 2005. Perhaps surprisingly, a plurality (48%) of Democrats agree.

Will the House of Representatives and the Senate turn Republican? A better question is, will Congress finally start to listen to the people and not to party insiders and special interest groups. Only we the people can force Congress to truly represent us by voting in members that will represent us. Whoever wins the race for Congress, we need to let that person know what we expect from our member of Congress. If they don't truly represent us then in two years we can replace them.