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Don't forget to duck!
In all the madness of GRIPgate, we barely had time yesterday to look over a new report from the Pew Research Center. The report compares public opinion from surveys done eight years ago, just after George W. Bush’s election, and now. (Spoiler alert!) The results show that a mere 13 percent of Americans are now satisfied with the way things are going in the country, compared with 55 percent who said the same thing as Clinton was leaving office.
And now for a chart. Because we know you love charts as much as we do!
It's as if President Bush has cooties or something.
Although Americans do seem to think the president wadded up our economy and used it for Kleenex, they have not all become cynics. No, no. Read on:
Still, if anything, Americans’ trademark optimism has been strengthened by adversity. A 56 percent majority expects their own family finances to improve over the coming year — essentially the same proportion who thought that eight years ago, and fully 68 percent agree that Americans can always solve their problems — a sizable increase from the 59% who espoused that view in the fall of 2000. And despite the headline-making business scandals of the period — from Enron to Madoff — the public remains split (47 percent to 43 percent) on whether government regulation is needed to protect the public interest or usually does more harm than good, a divide essentially unchanged since the turn of the century.
See? It’s a sad story, but it’s got a happy ending! For more charts and graphs and numbers, see the full report here.
