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AP New Year’s poll:

In this Sept. 22, 2016 file photo, police confront protesters blocking Interstate-277 during demonstrations following the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, in
Charlotte, N.C.
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Americans hopeful for a better 2017

EMILY SWANSON with the year. Only 18 per- than this year, because be even better for them he said.
VERENA DOBNIK cent said things for the people will have more jobs personally. ____
Associated Press country got better, 33 per- and they’ll have more mon- University of Miami profes- U.S. ELECTION LEADS TOP
NEW YORK (AP) — Emo- cent said things got worse, ey to spend,” said Bourema sor Benjamin Alsup said he NEWS EVENTS
tionally wrenching politics, and 47 percent said it was Tamboura, a Harlem resi- needed only three words to The U.S. elections top Amer-
foreign conflicts and shoot- unchanged from 2015. dent behind the wheel of a explain why 2016 felt worse icans’ list of 10 top news
ings at home took a toll on On a personal level, they New York car service. for him: “Trump, Trump, events in 2016. Three-quar-
Americans in 2016, but they were optimistic about 2017. “I’m hoping 2017 will be Trump!” ters called the presidential
are entering 2017 on an op- Fifty-five percent said they better,” added Elizabeth Robert Greenstone, a New election and Trump’s vic-
timistic note, according to believe things will be bet- Flynn, 62, an elementary York commercial real es- tory very or extremely im-
a new poll that found that ter for them in the coming schoolteacher from Pea- tate broker, said the po- portant.
a majority believes things year than in the year that body, Massachusetts. litical discourse leading Sixty-three percent ranked
are going to get better for just concluded. That’s a “You’ve got to be optimis- up to Republican Donald mass shootings and bomb-
the country next year. 12-point improvement from tic, and I’m going to try.” Trump’s election as presi- ings in Orlando, Florida, and
A look at the key findings of last year’s poll. Democrats are more likely dent played havoc with in Belgium, Turkey, Pakistan
the Associated Press-Times Americans interviewed than Republicans to say people’s emotions. and France as personally
Square Alliance poll: about the poll’s results ex- 2016 was worse for the “The amount of disinforma- important news stories of
___ pressed some of that opti- country than 2015. And tion made people suspect the year.
SO HOW WAS 2016? mism. Republicans are especially of everything and every-
Americans weren’t thrilled “Next year will be better likely to feel that 2017 will one, even their neighbors,” Continued on Page 3