PRINCETON, NJ -- The percentage of Americans calling economic conditions "poor", now at 44%, has reached yet another high for 2008, up two percentage points from Monday's previous high for the year.
Another 38% of Americans call conditions "only fair," leaving just 19% rating them "good" or "excellent." The last time in Gallup polling history that 44% or more of Americans rated the economy as "poor" was in 1992.
Eighty-five percent of Americans say the economy is getting worse, compared with only 10% saying it is getting better (and 3% volunteering that it is holding steady). -- Frank Newport
Methodology: Gallup is interviewing no fewer than 1,000 U.S. adults nationwide each day during 2008. The economic questions analyzed in this report are asked of a random half-sample of respondents. The results reported here are based on combined data from 1,494 interviews conducted March 15-17, 2008. For results based on this sample, the maximum margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
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