For the second straight week, 37% of likely voters say the United States is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

The percentage of voters who say the nation is heading in the right direction is up 16 points from the week Barack Obama was elected president in November and up 10 points from the week he was inaugurated in January.

However, 57% of voters say the nation is heading down the wrong track, down one point from the past two polls. But that number is down 15 points from the week of the presidential election and down six points from the week in January that Obama became president.

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For the second straight week, 61% of Democrats say the nation is heading in the right direction. Only 14% of Republicans and 31% of voters not affiliated with either party agree.

In other polling this week, Republicans lead Democrats again on the latest edition of the generic congressional ballot.

A new Rasmussen video report shows that as Obama’s approval numbers hover around record lows, Americans are lukewarm to several of his key policies.

Even though American troops have now pulled out of all cities in Iraq and still are on schedule to be completely withdrawn by the end of 2011, 64% of U.S. voters do not believe the war in Iraq is over.

A heavily publicized U.S. Supreme Court reversal of an appeals court ruling by Judge Sonia Sotomayor has at least temporarily diminished public support for President Obama's first Supreme Court nominee.

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