America's Best Days
45% Say America's Best Days Are in the Past, 43% Say They Still Lie Ahead
Sunday, November 11, 2012
As Barack Obama prepares to serve a second term as President, American voters are closely divided as to whether the nation's best days are behind us or still to come. Forty-five percent (45%) of Likely U.S. Voters feel that America's best days are in the past, but nearly as many (43%) think they are in the future, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Twelve percent (12%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on November 7, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.