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The Presidential elections in 2024 dominated the news cycle this year, and not only do most voters feel hopeful about the outcome, but increasingly hopeful about the country’s future. And while half think it was a bad year, the number of those who say it was good is the highest since 2020 (at the end of the first year of the pandemic).
When it comes to the future of the country, 55% are extremely or very hopeful about what lies ahead. This is 2 points higher than in 2022. Between 2021 and 2022, optimism about the country’s future increased by 10 points. The question was not asked in 2023.
Overall, 45% have little or no hope.
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The current numbers are driven by party divisions — by a large majority Republicans they hope for the future of the country (86%), while the majority of Democrats (72%) and independents (54%) do not.
In 2021, things were reversed among partisans, although to a lesser extent, 6 out of 10 democrats saying they hope so, while 7 in 10 Republicans and 6 in 10 independents say they don’t.
“Since the 1990s, attitudes toward the future have been strongly associated with partisanship,” says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who conducts the Fox News poll with Democrat Chris Anderson. “Nevertheless, there is more general optimism this year than we’ve seen in recent times, as the fear and anger of the past few years appears to be subsiding.”
Looking back to 2024, 4 in 10 (40%) say it was a good year for their family, while half (50%) say it was a bad year for a net score of -10. That’s an improvement from last year’s -14 (39% good, 53% bad) and significantly better than 2020, when it was underwater by 44 points (23% good, 67% bad). From 2012 to 2019, more voters had a positive view of their year than a negative one.
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By a 36-point margin, voters say 2024 was a bad year for America overall (28% good vs. 64% bad), but that’s better than 2020’s net negative rating of 65 points (13% good, 78% bad) . Since 2018, when the question was raised for the first time, the views on the state report at the end of the year have been negative.
Democrats (50% their family, 42% the state) are more likely than Republicans (34%, 19%) and independents (33%, 21%) who believe that 2024 was a good year for them and the country.
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One more hope…
Half of voters say the term “hopeful” describes how they feel about the 2024 presidential results (54%) — the highest of any other feeling including relief (50%), surprise (50%), excitement (48%), fear (46%), depressed (40%) and angry (39%).
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Conducted December 6-9, 2024 by Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News survey includes interviews with a sample of 1,015 registered voters randomly selected from the national voter file. Respondents spoke with interviewers live via landlines (125) and mobile phones (699) or completed the survey online after receiving an SMS (191). Results based on the full registered sample of voters have a margin of sampling error of ± 3 percentage points. The sampling error associated with the results among the subgroups is higher. In addition to sampling error, the wording and order of the questions may affect the results. Weights are generally applied to the age, race, education, and area variables to ensure that the demographics of respondents are representative of the population of registered voters. Sources for developing target weights include the American Community Survey, Fox News voter analysis, and voter file data.
