Economy On The Decline And Polls Show People Are Worried

Written By BlabberBuzz | Tuesday, 21 December 2021 11:45 PM

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Economy On The Decline And Polls Show People Are Worried

With increasing prices, worsening crime rates, and the upcoming year three of a global pandemic, 7 in 10 voters think it was another bad year for the country — and over half feel it was bad for them personally.

The new Fox Business survey of registered voters finds 70 percent say 2021 was a clunker for the country. While that is a little better than the 78 percent who felt that way about 2020, it’s still much worse than the 38 percent who called 2019 bad.

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In addition, 55 percent feel this was a poor year for them. That too is an advancement from a high of 67 percent last year, but a far more pessimistic assessment than in December 2019, before the pandemic began, when just a quarter said the same (26 percent).

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Overall, 19 percent of voters believe 2021 was a good year for the country while 31 percent say it was suitable for their family.

Meanwhile, 54 percent are pessimistic about the future of the country while 43 percent are hopeful.

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"These findings are unusual, because Americans tend to be optimistic about the future," says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who conducts Fox polls with Democrat Chris Anderson. "The promise of 2021 was that we would get off the roller coaster, but instead it felt like the ride was just as intense with little hope of returning to normalcy. For many of us, that is a little depressing."

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So who is happy and who is not?

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Cynicism for the future is exceptionally high among Republicans (69 percent not hopeful), White voters without a college degree (62 percent), White evangelicals (59 percent), rural voters (59 percent), and Independents (58 percent).

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Black voters (69 percent hopeful for the country’s future), Democrats (60 percent), urban voters (53 percent), and voters with a graduate degree (52 percent) are more positive about the future.

Partisanship influences attitudes when assessing how the country and voters personally fared in the last year.

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In 2019, with President Trump in the White House and a strong economy, around two-thirds of Republicans thought it was a good year for them as well as for the country. Those numbers fell significantly in 2020, after Joe Biden’s victory and the pandemic significantly hit the U.S., with only 27 percent saying it was a good year for them and 16 percent saying it was a good year for the country. Evaluations are a little worse this year: 24 percent good year personally, 11 percent a good year for the country.

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