A majority of Americans still feel their country is faring badly one year after US President Barack Obama's White House win, a CNN poll has found.
But their ranks are dwindling steadily since the financial crisis broke last year.
Sixty-three per cent of 1,018 adults surveyed in the poll released late on Tuesday said things in the United States were going pretty badly to very badly, against 37 per cent who thought they were going fairly well to very well.Both opinions had been changing gradually since mid-2008, when the financial crisis began.
In a November 6-9 poll last year, the number of Americans who thought their country was faring very badly peaked at 83 per cent, while those who thought things were going well bottomed out at 16 per cent. That survey was conducted just days after Obama won the presidential elections on November 4, 2008.The latest poll coincided with a Commerce Department announcement last week that the US economy had rebounded from recession in the third quarter, posting its strongest economic growth in two years.
Obama claimed the upswing was a result of the $US787 billion ($A871 billion) stimulus package passed by Congress shortly after he took office in January.
