| Results of SurveyUSA News Poll #7238 |
 | In general, do you think the country is headed in the right direction? Or the wrong direction? |
| 600 Adults | All | Gender | Race | Party Affiliation | Ideology | Education | Attend Church | Abortion | Region | |||||||||||||||||||
| Margin of Sampling Error: ± 4% | Male | Female | White | Black | Hispanic | Other | Republic | Democrat | Independ | Conserva | Moderate | Liberal | Not Yet | High Sch | Started | College | Graduate | Never | Occasion | Regularl | Pro-life | Pro-choi | Not Sure | North | West | Harris C | East | |
| The Right Direction | 34% | 33% | 35% | 44% | 14% | 19% | ** | 62% | 10% | 28% | 48% | 29% | 15% | 22% | 24% | 39% | 45% | 35% | 34% | 27% | 40% | 43% | 28% | 19% | 30% | 42% | 35% | 35% |
| The Wrong Direction | 62% | 65% | 60% | 52% | 84% | 76% | ** | 35% | 86% | 68% | 49% | 67% | 84% | 74% | 70% | 59% | 53% | 61% | 64% | 69% | 56% | 54% | 69% | 76% | 68% | 51% | 60% | 62% |
| Not Sure | 4% | 3% | 5% | 4% | 2% | 5% | ** | 4% | 3% | 4% | 3% | 4% | 1% | 4% | 6% | 2% | 2% | 4% | 2% | 3% | 5% | 4% | 3% | 5% | 3% | 7% | 5% | 4% |
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| Composition of Adults | 100% | 49% | 51% | 56% | 11% | 29% | 4% | 36% | 36% | 27% | 42% | 37% | 17% | 9% | 27% | 28% | 23% | 13% | 18% | 38% | 43% | 44% | 48% | 8% | 28% | 8% | 18% | 46% |