| Results of SurveyUSA News Poll #7202 |
 | In general, do you think the country is headed in the right direction? Or the wrong direction? |
| 600 Adults | All | Gender | Age | Race | Party Affiliation | Ideology | Education | Attend Church | Abortion | Region | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Margin of Sampling Error: ± 3.8% | Male | Female | 18-34 | 35-54 | 55+ | White | Black | Hispanic | Other | Republic | Democrat | Independ | Conserva | Moderate | Liberal | Grad Sch | College | Some Col | No Colle | Never | Occasion | Regularl | Pro-life | Pro-choi | Not Sure | Fairfiel | Hartford | New Have | Rest of | |
| The Right Direction | 27% | 29% | 24% | 23% | 30% | 26% | 27% | 20% | 19% | ** | 55% | 10% | 23% | 48% | 22% | 13% | 22% | 31% | 27% | 27% | 19% | 30% | 32% | 42% | 20% | ** | 29% | 28% | 20% | 30% |
| The Wrong Direction | 68% | 67% | 68% | 70% | 64% | 70% | 68% | 77% | 64% | ** | 41% | 87% | 68% | 47% | 75% | 78% | 75% | 67% | 61% | 68% | 77% | 63% | 61% | 54% | 74% | ** | 68% | 63% | 72% | 66% |
| Not Sure | 6% | 4% | 7% | 7% | 6% | 4% | 5% | 3% | 18% | ** | 4% | 3% | 9% | 5% | 3% | 9% | 3% | 3% | 12% | 6% | 4% | 7% | 7% | 4% | 6% | ** | 3% | 9% | 8% | 4% |
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| Composition of Adults | 100% | 48% | 52% | 28% | 42% | 30% | 80% | 8% | 8% | 4% | 24% | 33% | 42% | 27% | 48% | 22% | 24% | 25% | 24% | 27% | 37% | 34% | 29% | 27% | 68% | 5% | 26% | 23% | 25% | 26% |