As President Obama enters his final year in office, the results of a CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday show a significant majority of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed, as well as the direction in which the country is heading.

Seventy-five percent of Americans surveyed said they were dissatisfied with the way the nation is being governed, while 69 percent are angry with the way things in the country are going generally. Majorities in both parties shared this anger and dissatisfaction, and only 37 percent of those surveyed believe the president has introduced positive changes to the country.

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This comes after results from the same poll, released earlier on Monday, showed that more than half — 52 percent — of Americans disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job as president.

The picture is even worse for the president when it comes to the war of terror. Sixty percent of those surveyed say they disapprove of the way Obama is handling terrorism, and even more — 64 percent — say that they disapprove of the way the president is responding to ISIS specifically.

Disapproval of Obama’s handling of terrorism is shared by majorities across different ages, sexes, income brackets, and levels of education. Sixty-four percent of women and 57 percent of men disapprove of Obama’s handling of terrorism.

Almost three-quarters of Americans — 74 percent — said they were not too satisfied, or not at all satisfied, with the way the war on terror is going for the United States.

An astonishing 40 percent of those surveyed believe the terrorists are winning, and a full 50 percent of Americans have not much or no confidence in the Obama administration’s ability to protect U.S. citizens from future acts of terrorism.

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However, the country is split on how to respond to the ISIS threat. Forty-nine percent believe in sending ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria, while another 49 percent are against the idea.

Interestingly, the poll results released Tuesday also showed that House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has risen in popularity since assuming the top spot in the House. While his grand cave-in to the Democrats in the form of the omnibus spending bill won him little praise from conservatives, it would seem it earned him fans on the opposite side of the aisle. In October, 15 percent of Democrats had a favorable opinion of Ryan. In the recent poll, his support among Democrats had more than doubled, with 34 percent of them viewing the GOP congressman favorably.