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AP-NORC poll: Americans split on personal, country's future

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI
and HANNAH FINGERHUT
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — At
home and in their own lives,
Americans by and large
have an upbeat view of
the year to come. When it
comes to how the country
will fare in 2020, well, that's
another matter.
A new poll released Friday
by The Associated Press-
NORC Center for Public
Affairs Research finds that
close to 4 in 10 Ameri-
cans expect a better year
ahead for them personally,
while another half expect
things to stay about the
same. Only about 1 in 10
expect a downturn in their
own lives in 2020.
America's mood takes a
darker turn when it comes
to the year ahead for the
country overall, with about
4 in 10 saying the way things
are going nationwide will
get worse. Only about 3 in
10 think things will get bet-
ter for America overall in In this Dec. 5, 2019 photo, a view of the south side of the White House in Washington decorated for Christmas.
the next 12 months. Associated Press
"It's going to be fine for me.
I'll always be fine no mat- 2020 is an election year, in between," said Caleb ing point. if we could eliminate the
ter what happens, I'm that and, perhaps not unex- Jud, a 29-year-old custom- "They've been saying for Democrats," she said of the
kind of person," said Leslie pectedly, that might have er service representative years that the middle class political system.
Schulgren, a 75-year-old something to do with it: in Cincinnati. Jud is a left- is shrinking, but it's starting Hunt and her husband still
Democrat and retired sci- Most Democrats and Re- leaning independent who to seem now that it's not have to work to support
ence teacher in Atlanta. publicans alike say they're supports Democratic presi- just a buzzword," Jud said. themselves, and she’s not
But, she added, "this partic- dissatisfied with the state of dential hopeful Sen. Bernie Roberta Hunt, a 78-year-old optimistic that their situa-
ular year, 2020, is not going politics. Sanders of Vermont, and Republican in Santa Ana, tion will improve.
to be pretty — there's going "Everybody is Republican or he is optimistic that the old California, is also frustrated
to be too much fighting." Democrat, and there's less way of politics is at a break- by partisanship. "It'd be fine Continued on Page 3