The midterm elections cost billions of dollars, generated thousands of headlines and resulted in the Republicans taking control of Congress, but the public's attitudes about politics in Washington, D.C., haven't changed, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. “While this wave election has changed the composition of Congress and added Republican governors, it has not changed the nation’s psyche or their expectations,” says Democratic pollster Fred Yang of Hart Research. Post-election, about two-thirds of Americans still say that the nation is on the wrong track, and President Obama's approval rating remains in the 40s. If there's one thing the public wants, the poll suggests, it's for election officials to compromise. Click through to see what else the poll found.
